The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit require a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.
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The common prejudice that love is as common as “romance” may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.