Why does love always contradict itself?

Author: Liu Yong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Ten Contradictions of Love:
1. Love is both selfless and exploitative.
2. Love requires giving, yet also self-protection.
3. Love moves toward togetherness, yet also separation.
4. Love pursues novelty, yet also nostalgia.
5. Love is without hierarchy, yet seems to have one.
6. Love is indifferent, yet has right and wrong.
7. Love is sacrifice, yet demands reciprocity.
8. Love's roles are unchanging yet ever-changing.
9. Love can be expressed, yet cannot be fully shown.
10. Love is selfish, yet extends to others.
Why Love Always Seems Contradictory is Liu Yong's latest masterpiece on love. Through vivid stories, it analyzes the ten traits of love:
1. Love is both selfless and exploitative.
2. Love requires giving, yet also self-protection.
3. Love moves toward togetherness, yet also separation.
4. Love pursues novelty, yet also nostalgia.
5. Love is without hierarchy, yet seems to have one.
6. Love is indifferent, yet has right and wrong.
7. Love is sacrifice, yet demands reciprocity.
8. Love's roles are unchanging yet ever-changing.
9. Love can be expressed, yet cannot be fully shown.
10. Love is selfish, yet extends to others.
Over the past decade, Liu Yong has delivered dozens of speeches based on the book's content at cultural centers across Taiwan and Malaysia, as well as prestigious universities like Peking University and Nanjing University. This is the written version of those speech highlights. Unlike Liu Yong's previous Deep Love series, which presented essays one by one, this work presents a cohesive philosophy of love—honest, raw, and direct, like a scalpel that lays bare the contradictions and struggles of human love before the readers.