Love
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Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment.
In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness,
compassion and affection.
In some religious contexts, love is not just a virtue, but the basis for all being,
as in the Roman Catholic phrase, "God is love".
Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion.
Or as actions towards others based on affection.
The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes,
ranging from generic pleasure to intenseinterpersonal attraction.
"Love" can also refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the
sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, or to the platonic love that defines
friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love.
This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity
of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define,
even compared to other emotional states.
Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and,
owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Love is sometimes referred to as being the "international language", overriding cultural and
linguistic divisions.
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