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Quote #141605

Love is no respecter of age or practicality Neither morality: unabashed She enters where she will Unheeding that her immortal fires Burn up human hearts...

Phillip Pulfrey

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The speaker personifies Love as a willful, almost elemental force—feminized as “She”—that ignores the usual human constraints: age, practicality, and even morality. Love arrives without permission (“She enters where she will”), indifferent to social rules or ethical calculations, and its “immortal fires” suggest both divinity and danger. The closing image—love’s flames burning up “human hearts”—frames passion as transformative but potentially destructive: what feels eternal and exalted can consume finite human lives. The passage thus treats love less as a choice or virtue than as an overpowering visitation that can upend prudence and moral certainty.

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