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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

Is It a Bad Thing to Bottle Up Your Feelings?

"We live in this romantic culture. If you feel something, you must express it," she says. "To be wholly yourself in the presence of another is a pretty mean thing to be." She adds that we're permanently trying to show how stupid every other side is. 'Politeness' is an attempt not to say everything but to understand there's a role for private feelings,' she writes....

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