themselves. The Sex Zum lernen real test
of the artist in love is in the skill to carry
it beyond the period when the interests of nature, Sex Zum lernen having been really or
seemingly secured, begin to slacken. The whole art of love, it has been
well said, lies in forever finding something new in the same person. The
art of love is even more the art of retaining love than of arousing it.
Otherwise it tends to Sex Zum lernen degenerate towards the Shakespearian lust,
"Past reason hunted, Sex Zum lernen and no sooner had,
Past
reason hated,"
though it must be remembered that even from the most strictly natural
point of view the transitions of passion are not normally towards
repulsion but towards affection.[409]
The young man and woman who are brought into
the complete unrestraint Sex Zum lernen of
marriage after Sex Zum lernen a prolonged and unnatural separation, Sex Zum lernen during which desire
and the satisfactions Sex Zum lernen of desire have been artificially disconnected, are
certainly not under the best conditions for learning the art of love. Sex Zum lernen they
are tempted Sex Zum lernen by reckless and promiscuous Sex Zum lernen indulgence in the intimacies of
marriage to fling carelessly aside all the reasons that make that art
worth Sex Zum lernen learning. "There are married people," Sex Zum lernen as Ellen Key remarks, "who
might have loved each other all their lives if they had not been
compelled, every day and all the year, to Sex Zum lernen direct their habits, wills, and
inclinations towards each other."
All the tendencies of our civilized life are, in personal matters,