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Between Love and Lust
Paperback
Publisher: Santos Chand
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Modern intimacy is built on hesitation...................................
We call it freedom.
We call it complexity.
We call it keeping things simple.
In truth, it is avoidance.
Between Love and Lust is a bold work of philosophical and literary nonfiction that confronts one of the defining failures of the modern age: the refusal to choose. It exposes how emotional ambiguity-relationships without clarity, desire without commitment, intimacy without accountability-slowly erodes identity, dignity, and meaning.
This book draws a hard line where culture insists on gray. It argues that the human heart is not designed for limbo. There is no safe middle ground between promise and convenience, no lasting warmth without responsibility, no intimacy without consequence. What we often mistake for sophistication is, in reality, fear dressed in softer language.
Through precise moral insight and a powerful narrative arc, the book reveals lust not merely as physical desire, but as a governing philosophy-one that prioritizes pleasure over permanence, self-interest over sacrifice, and comfort over truth. In contrast, love is presented as discipline, courage, and choice: an anchor in a culture addicted to drift.
At its core is the story of Maya, a woman living inside a relationship defined by ease rather than commitment. As desire outpaces clarity, doubt replaces security, and intimacy gives way to anxiety. Her unraveling is not exceptional-it is emblematic of a generation taught to avoid definition at all costs.
This is not a romance.
This is not self-help.
This is not reassurance.
It is a reckoning.
Between Love and Lust challenges readers to confront the consequences of indecision and the silent damage caused by emotional convenience. It demands honesty where excuses are easier, courage where avoidance feels safer, and responsibility where culture offers endless escape routes.
There are no half-measures.
There is no neutral ground.
Only love, or lust-and the void created when we refuse to choose.
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