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Оглавление - The Paths of Russian Love
Part III — The Torn Age
- PREFACE
- I
- From the bottom of the people. Unnatural feelings. Legends of cruel love. Alien worlds. Feverish thoughts. Woman’s tender word. Sense of the real self. Romantic soul. Ultimate suffering. Innermost desire. Litmus test of love. Real woman. Study of love. Nightmares of doppelgangers
- II
- Justified risk. Fast love. Broads in the past. Woman’s freedom. Disturbing yellow flowers. Struggle for love. Substitution of one’s nature. Heaviest vice. Liberation by love. Uncommon mercy
- III
- Madness of love. Under the power of a woman. Grammar of love. Picture of first love. Disappearance of time. Compassionate tenderness. Scales of love. Undercurrents. Assemblage of personality. Intolerability of eternal inseparability. Mean-spirited insult. Return to authenticity. Self-deception of love. Compass of love
- IV
- Quenching a long-standing thirst. How to awaken love? Compulsion to love. Materialization of sensual ideas. Healing of the emptied mind. Sharpness of human audacity. Golden keys of hearts. Shards of porcelain love. From divine love to revolutionary love
- V
- Crazy summer. System of dramas. Demon in love. Pulse of romanticism. Pool of the universe. Primary foundations. Visibility of the present. Barrier of spiritual development. Firstness of first love. Second birth. Grand novel. Great love. General molding of the world. Many sins. Weight of a guilty conscience. Lines of immortality
- VI
- Kitchen of a scandalous novel. Chill of inspiration. Perilous Magic of nymphets. Island of enchanted time. Union of the intentional and the accidental. Doubling of reality. Great bright sin. Redemption of love
- VII
- All ages are submissive. Bringing back the past. Dazed love. Long affliction. Who is to blame? Essence of things. Happy marriage. Chaos of a beautiful world. Unforgiveness and all-forgiveness. Saddest loss. Mysterious strife of two souls
- VIII
- Modern subject. Fork in the road of love. Unified principles of morality. Complete man. The secret of true love. Lessons of confession. Cure for love. Love, know your place. Era of subjectivity. Born from nothingness. Shifting the object of love
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX
- ILLUSION OF LOVE’S SYMMETRY
- TESTIMONY OF LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ
- CONFESSIONS OF NATALIE HERZEN
- DEFENSE OF ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAY
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