Two-way

There is a word in numerous languages which denotes at the same time the act of giving and the act of taking, charity and greed, generosity and covetousness – it is the word ‘love’. Paradoxically, the passionate desire a person has for complete gratification and a selflessness without reserve come together in the same term.

Alain Finkeilkraut, La sagesse d’amour, 1984, p. 11

Mike Newman Workshop 2005