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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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How Are You Crazy?

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. No one can in intuitively understand another beyond a quite limited range of topics. We only get into sulks with people that we feel should understand us, but rather, unforgivably, haven't understood us....

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