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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I've Goed Off My Lover, You Know?

When somebody says, i've gone off my lover, we're taught by our culture to think that's just the waning of passion. And there's not much to do other than ou na watch t v. The thought of them touching you has become repulsive. You just, you just want to read a book. Maybe it's not that you've lost, maybe it's, you're furious, but you've slightly forgotten why. Because when we're in love, we're all quite defenceless. We get hurt by very minor things. It's things that seem very minor. In love, we know we've got the defencelessness of children, and yet we don't face...

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