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Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

I'm in a Sulk

When we fall in love with another person, we magnify in our minds those things that are immediately enrapturing and craft our idea of the other person almost exclusively around those wonderful qualities. The term true love means intuitive understanding. It's got to axcept that the person across the table or on the other side of the bed is just human, which means full of flaws, fears, et cetera, and not some sort of superhumany....

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