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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is It the Work of Life?

i think that one of the most, one of the kindest things that we can do with our lover is to see them as children. We're incredibly generous in the way we interpret their behaviour. If a child says, if you walk home and a child, i hate you, right? You immediately go, ok, that's not quite true. Rigt your children. How old are your children? They're still pretty young. Rih y, they're ten and twelve, ok? So, you know, as the as em now that i have young adult children, it's, you know, you when you hear that coming out of the mouth of your twenty one year old,...

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