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In the state, one is conscious of unity as law; there, the content must be rational, and I must know it.
The first moment in love is that I do not wish to be an independent person in my own right and that,
if I were, I would feel deficient and incomplete.
The second moment in love is that I find myself in another person, I gain recognition in this person,
who in turns gains recognition in me.
Love is therefore the most immense contradiction; the understanding cannot resolve it,
because there is nothing more intractable than this punctiliousness of the self-consciousness
,which is negated and which I ought nevertheless to possess as affirmative.
Love is both the production and the resolution of this contradiction.

/Georg Hegel