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Charlotte Eriksson says you love and lose and bleed best you can…

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the … Continue reading

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Alain de Botton says every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge…

“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won’t find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon … Continue reading

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh says when you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way…

“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most … Continue reading

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