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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Beginning of a Love Story

We internalize images of how a romance should develop and what it is to fall in love from movies, tv shows and beautiful love songs. One of the things that's wrong with all that is that they the a lot of these torsto take us up to the wedding. And so we end our feeling very isolated. We're not just interested in the moment that gets us into love. We're iterested in the survival of love. Ote longing, yes, weare longing for and yet, of course, that is the very tricky bit that most get fairly left out of art....

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