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Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships
On Being with Krista Tippett
The Course of Love Is a Novel
The ancient greeks had a view of love, which was essentially based aroun education. Two people try to teach each other how to become the best versions of them. By the time we've humiliated someone, they're not going to learn. The only conditions under which any one learns are conditions of incredible sweetness, tenderness, patience. That's how we learn. But the problem is that, you know, the failures of our relationships have made us so anxious that we can't be the teachers we should be....
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