You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a good lover, a good artist or a good politician without this capacity (you can get away with it, but that's not what I mean). Show me the tyrants who have been great lovers.
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
empathy, empathy-psychology, narrative, narratology, stories