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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton

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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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