Rare Love: The Private Lives of Thirteen Movie Couples

Author: Yi Fei Media
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Love is Not a Textbook is not a love manual. If you expect to find a "good partner" or learn how to be one from this book, you'll be completely mistaken. They are certainly not "good partners"; they should be called "great lovers." "You must first be a very sexy person to become a great lover," said Henry Miller's elderly lover. So, it can also be said that the thirteen couples in Love is Not a Textbook are the most sexy people in the world. These thirteen artistic couples have names that are absolutely classic—whether it's John Lennon, Yoko Ono, or Georgia O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, Kurt Cobain, or Courtney Love. To some extent, they are a cluster of twin stars of art and love. Their love and art cannot be separated; they permeate each other until they become one, so their love is also their work. But their relationship with love is so subtle and complex. Often, art is closer to them than their closest loved ones, while love always remains distant. These artistic geniuses used their spirit and emotions excessively in their life's script. They were like the precise gunpowder of a grand fireworks display, ignited, exploding in breathtaking light and color in the night sky—recreating flowers amidst flowers, dreams above dreams, and their life's joys and pains were all like fireworks in that instant. "Love does not exist; what exists are the evidences of love." This book uses Picasso's words as the dedication on the cover. No one can understand love; one must experience and go through it. Only then. But if anyone tries to summarize love, they will inevitably go astray. So, on the back cover, the book uses Du's words: "Lovers are insignificant, even if there are no lovers; the key is to have a fascination with love itself." "A fascination with love itself," I like this phrase. If love does not exist, then this fascination definitely does. Love is Not a Textbook was born and exists precisely because of this fascination. This book is a tribute to these great couples!