Love
Deep attachment, care, or cherishing that binds self to another.
25 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus · 6 published pairings shown below.
Study and magazine
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Passage and image
Curator-published pairings — the human claim between text and artwork.
DGB-RC-560
Giannotto, for his part, was filled with amazement, for he could remember having seen her on many previous occasions in that same castle without ever having recognized her. Nevertheless, he now knew instinctively that she was his mother, and, bursting into tears and reproaching himself for his former indifference, he received her in his arms and kissed her with tenderness. Shortly afterwards, with the loving assistance of Spina and Currado’s lady, who applied cold water and other remedies, Madonna Beritola recover…
Winter Morning, Unguarded · View unit
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DC-RC-262
1 And I, lighter than by the other passages, went on so that without any toil I was following the fleet spirits upward, when Virgil began: “Love, kindled by virtue, hath ever kindled other love, if but its flame were shown forth: wherefore from that hour when Juvenal, 2 who made thy affection manifest to me, descended among us in the limbo of Hell my good will towards thee hath been such as never yet did bind to an unseen person, so that now these stairs will seem short to me. But tell me, and as a friend forgive…
Curtain of Gold · View unit
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JSPP-RC-057
And yet, think, think, think—and keep this of tonight, this holy, miraculous resuscitation of the creative integrating blind optimism which was dead, frozen, gone quite away. To love, to be loved. By one; by humanity. I am afraid of love, of sacrifice on the altar. I am going to think, to grow, to sally forth, please please, unafraid. Tonight, biking home toward midnight, talking to myself, sense of trap, of time, rolled the stone of inertia away from the tomb. Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be oth…
One Small Clasp · View unit
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SS-RC-101
In Paris …” Vix cut her off. “Everything’s in bloom.” Caitlin laughed. “It’s so good to see you! I miss you every single day of my life.” Vix had been a wreck, charged with nervous anticipation all day, like a child expecting the return of a long-lost parent. If Caitlin felt Vix’s cold shoulder, punishment for having abandoned her in the first place, she didn’t show it. “I have so much to tell you,” she said, “but it will have to wait until after the party. You’ll spend the night, won’t you?” “I didn’t bring ……
STAC-RC-7111
Since charity is not only the end, but also the foundation of all virtues and of all the precepts given us for the attainment of virtue, it follows that as by means of the Counsels man advances towards more perfect love of God and of his neighbour, so likewise the more perfect observance of the Counsels is furthered by obedience to those Commandments which are necessary to charity. He who has the intention of practising continence or poverty for the love of Christ is a long way from committing adultery or theft. T…
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), Gustav Klimt | The Met · View unit
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UM-RC-091
Part Three [image file=image_rsrcW2.jpg] THIS MEDICINE, LOVEAn Officer and a Gentleman [image file=image_rsrcW1.jpg] There was a time when I honestly believed that there was only a certain amount of pain one had to go through in life. Because manic-depressive illness had brought such misery and uncertainty in its wake, I presumed life should therefore be kinder to me in other, more balancing ways. But then I also had believed that I could fly through starfields and slide along the rings of Saturn. Perhaps my judgm…
Curtain of Gold · View unit
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Crowd-tagged images
Images attested as carrying this emotion — through curator pairings, the illustration corpus, or the cumulative picks of readers using Connect. Not a verdict on the image; a record of what others have said it holds.
Part of a cluster
Love sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Lovefrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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25 tagged passages
- CTA-RC-273From The Canterbury Tales (2009)
The monk stared at her in alarm. ‘God forbid, dear niece, that in your grief you should do away with yourself. Tell me everything. I may be able to help or counsel you. Confide in me. I promise never to betray you. I sw…
- GBR-RC-156From The Great Believers (2018)
I’m not worried about you sharing the orange juice.” Yale said, “Thank you. I can’t believe you’re being this good to me.” “Look, I know how I can come off. To get by in my job, as a woman, I have to be a certain way. B…
- MYST-RC-220From Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019)
“Unless someone’s dying,” he’d told them, quoting Margo, “find a way to handle it yourselves.” They weren’t complete idiots, he assured himself. The show was doing well. They could manage whatever came up. It was three …
- VLA-0C08D123-RC-030From man s search for meaning (1946)
A thought crossed my mind: I didn’t even know if she were still alive. I knew only one thing—which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning i…
- WT-RC-218From The Work of Theology (2015)
For example, some years ago I wrote an essay titled “A Tale of Two Stories: On Being a Christian and a Texan.”12 The essay begins by acknowledging that I want to entertain my reader while doing what I take to be serious…
- GHO00-RC-124From Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
You’ve heard toasts to the new couple and the opening bars of “Brown Eyed Girl.” Here’s what I want you to see at our wedding reception: See table five, where Dr. Rosen and his wife sit flanked by Max, Lorne, Patrice, a…
- LSC-RC-128From Love & Sex: A Christian Guide to Healthy Intimacy (2018)
“Well, I finally know why. I wasn’t aware of it until tonight, but while I was speaking I realized I have held a belief close to my heart and I have guarded it like Fort Knox. I realized I don’t trust men. It started wi…
- UM-RC-091From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (1995)
Part Three [image file=image_rsrcW2.jpg] THIS MEDICINE, LOVEAn Officer and a Gentleman [image file=image_rsrcW1.jpg] There was a time when I honestly believed that there was only a certain amount of pain one had to go t…
- HCCP-RC-1803From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Her affectionate son says in one of the poems in which he extols her piety and her blessed end: "Bewail, O mortals, the mortal race; but when one dies, like Nonna, praying, then weep I not." Gregory was early instructed…
- PD-RC-053From The Principle of Desire (2013)
“I’m getting there. I realized a long time ago that my mother’s beliefs weren’t my beliefs, and that used to be a huge problem for me, especially when I was a kid. That’s part of my baggage now, she’s part of my baggage…
- STAC-RC-7111From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Since charity is not only the end, but also the foundation of all virtues and of all the precepts given us for the attainment of virtue, it follows that as by means of the Counsels man advances towards more perfect love…
- JSPP-RC-057From The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
And yet, think, think, think—and keep this of tonight, this holy, miraculous resuscitation of the creative integrating blind optimism which was dead, frozen, gone quite away. To love, to be loved. By one; by humanity. I…
- AN-RC-010From The Argonauts (2015)
You should order a mug in response, my friend mused while drinking her coffee. Like, how about one that features Iggy’s head crowning, in all its bloody glory? (I had told her earlier that day that I was vaguely hurt th…
- SLC-RC-093From The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (2001)
With many men, it is their houses that I remember before anything else. That is not an excuse to underestimate other memories that I have of them, it is rather that these cannot be dissociated from their background, and…
- BDF-RC-216From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
He can't leave" - Ida said, "wake up" - "without talking to you and your mama, and if you don't want to, yes, you should have sent him to wake up earlier..." 'You're right, Ida; but I couldn't do that, because after all…
- DC-RC-262From The Divine Comedy (1950)
1 And I, lighter than by the other passages, went on so that without any toil I was following the fleet spirits upward, when Virgil began: “Love, kindled by virtue, hath ever kindled other love, if but its flame were sh…
- GCR-RC-147From Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies
Her pussy clasped him, clenching around his hard pole, and the tightness and welling of sensation deep within told her she’d be coming again. She didn’t know if he could come like this, and she wanted to wait for him, b…
- AQ22-RC-7337From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
My Jesus, Thy Soul was once sorrowful even unto death: now it is without sorrow, where sorrow cannot be. As Thy great prophet has told us, because it has laboured it is saturated with joy. To-day is for evermore the day…
- FSM-RC-032From The Fixed Stars: A Memoir (2020)
That was it. In a single afternoon, legend has it, Joe got the information he needed, metabolized it, and accepted it. Now I think, What the fuck kind of superman does that? Could this be real—that in the mid-seventies,…
- DC-RC-460From The Divine Comedy (1950)
From the one I noted of most beauty, I saw issue a so blissful flame it left none there of greater brightness; and thrice round Beatrice did it sweep with so divine a song, my fantasy repeateth it not to me; wherefore m…