You couldn't make it up dept. no.57: believe it or not, an intelligent person wrote the following:

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Nobody with a modicum of self-control HAS to fall in love

(The author of the Roscesvalles blog, to be precise.)

Which goes to show that intelligent people can write the most fantastically idiotic things when they go outside their own areas of experience. IN other words, if you have never been in love, shut up about it.

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Benedict from Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING has a similar philosophy... until he falls in love.

The heartless gods scorn such mortal folly. The boy who said that will be head over heals in love, moping and crying his eyes out, before the next new moon. Cupid will mug him. Just wait and see.

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Alas, that is not the case. People of thirty, of forty, of fifty, have never fallen in love. The otherwise excellent Editrix of the Roncesvalles blog, whom I have quoted here - and whom you would probably like - is quite obviously one, and I know at least one other who happens to be a genius. Some people never will live to experience the catastrophe that is love.