An idea from The World as Will and Representation

Falling in love feels like the most personal thing you will ever do. Here it serves the child the two of you could have: the lover “seeks not his interest, but that of a third person who has yet to come into existence”. Later mate-choice theories echo this loosely.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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