Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests us-which is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced {as it may need be, for instance, when two lovers are already married to other people} by a declaration of that desire-a confession which may in itself be so erotic as to render the actual kiss superfluous.
( Alain de Botton )
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