Neither the romantic narrative, nor its disenchantment in the postromantic sequence of a love identifying as a phantasm hit its aporetic core, which identifies them as lived difference. With Alain Badiou, love can be thought as „encounter and thinking“, as „asymmetric egalitarian becoming“ or „procedure for a truth of difference“. A difference which points to the aporias of love, to problems without solution, to constitutive antinomies. Instead of being „mystical fusion“ or „astral connection“, love is a „dualistic adventure of body and mind“. Evidently, there is a relation between truth and love referring to the concept of philosophy: philosophy is the love of truth, as long as truth determines the aporetic core of reality. The philosophical love of truth aims at the inconsistency of the space of consistency which is the universe of established familiarities. The affirmation of what remains untouchable or „off“ belongs to philosophy as much as it belongs to love, if we follow Roland Barthes’ dictum according to which „truth“ is what’s „off“, beyond the reach of the knowable and meaning.