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en-wikipedia-org-631		Love at first sight - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4347	411	81	Love at first sight is a personal experience as well as a common trope or stock convention in literature: a person or character feels an instant, extreme, and ultimately long-lasting romantic attraction for a stranger upon first seeing that stranger. In the classical world, the phenomenon of "love at first sight" was understood within the context of a more general conception of passionate love, a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania ("madness from the gods").[2] This love passion was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological psychological schema involving "love's arrows" or "love darts," the source of which was often given as the mythological Eros or Cupid,[3] sometimes by other mythological deities (such as Rumor[4]). These images of the lover's eyes, the arrows, and the ravages of "love at first sight" continued to be circulated and elaborated upon in the Renaissance and Baroque literature, and play an important role in Western fiction and especially the novel, according to Jean Rousset.[11] All the Vermeers in New York (1980), Mark falls in love with Anna at first sight when he sees her in an art museum.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-631.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-631.txt