In my opinion that quote doesn't have much to do with waifuism? But nice idea for the thread.

I saved this perhaps months ago. I meant to post it on daily waifu thread, but I kinda forgot.

Post edited on 13th Jun 2013, 1:27am

You said it yourself: the being that you love in the living one and who, for you, is the only REAL one, it's not the one that appears as a walking human but the one of your desire. The one that does not exist and, moreover, that you know as non-existent since you aren't fooled by that woman nor by yourself... It's only this shadow what you love: it's only her what you're now willing to die for... and which is nothing but your own soul unfolded on her. Yes, there you've got it, your love.
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If our gods and hopes became scientific matters, why wouldn't our love as well? Instead of the forgotten Eve of the legend, I offer you a scientific Eve, the only one worth of those innards that --due to some persistent sentimentalism that you are the first one to find laughable--- you still dare to call "your hearts"... I come to offer you, men of these new and evolved times, instead of the liar, mediocre and fickle reality, a positive, prestigious and always faithful illusion; chimere by chimere, sin by sin.
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Did the ideal deceive you? Did truth destroy your wishes? Did some woman freeze up your senses? Farewell then to that alleged reality, to that ancient impostor. I offer you to try instead the artificial and its new signs... I represent science with the omnipotence of its mirages; you, humanity and its Paradise Lost.
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There's no more truth than the choice of a man among several options, each one just as doubtful as the others. So choose the one that turns you into a God... and believe that there'll always be solitude in the world for those worthy of it.
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One being of ultrahumanity has been sugested in this work of art that centralizes, indefeasible, a mystery never known before... For I see now that, one next to the other, the ghost was the living one.

---Villiers De L'Isle-Adam