“Why is the measure of love loss?”
“For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.”
“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”
“There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.”
“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”
“What is the strongest pretext for loving?...If it is necessary, our atomized consciousness invents love, imagines it or feigns it, but does not live without it, since in the midst of infinite dispersion, love, even if as a pretext , gives us the measure of our loss.”