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“There had been that time and there had been an infinite number of others, which Alice no longer remembered, because the love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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“Think about the love of your life and the countless events that had to happen as they did to bring the two of you together. (...) Once, it was vanishingly unlikely that you two would meet. And yet, you did. What do you make of that? Most people don' think "Wow, what luck!" Instead, they take the sheer improbability of it happening, and the fact it happened, as proof it was meant to happen.”
― Philip E. Tetlock

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“According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the ‘right’ person rather than in knowing how to love a real — that is, a necessarily rather unright — human being.”
― Alain de Botton, How to Think More About Sex

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“The new pornography would combine sexual excitement with an interest in other human ideals. The usual animalistic categories and hackneyed plots, replete with stock characters seemingly incapable of coherent speech, would give way to pornographic images and scenarios based aorund such qualities as intelligence (showing people reading or wandering the stacks in libraries), kindness (people performing oral sex on one another with an air of sweetness and regard) or humility (people caught looking embarrassed, shy or self-conscious).”
― Alain de Botton, How to Think More About Sex

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