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“The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
“We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?”
― On Love
― On Love
“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”
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“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
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“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
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Alain de Botton
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