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Alain de Botton _ On Love
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once {we soon feel ungrateful} or those who never allow us to kiss them {we soon forget them}, but those who know how to carefully administer varied doses of hope and despair."
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
چه‌بسا حقیقت این است که تا، کسی ندیده باشدمان، وجود نداریم، نمی‌توانیم درست حرف بزنیم، تا وقتی کسی به حرفمان گوش بدهد، و در یک کلام، کاملاً زنده نیستیم، تا زمانی که دوست داشته بشویم.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and our weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place? Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone to believe in--but how can we believe in the beloved now that they believe in us?
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Every fall into love is the triumph of hope over self-knowledge
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
It was a reminder that the labeling of others is usually a silent process. Most people do not openly force us into roles, they merely suggest that we adopt them through their reactions to us, and hence surreptitiously prevent us from moving beyond whatever mold they have assigned us. 12. A
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
But seriously, if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they'd probably say they didn't. Yet that's not necessarily what they truly think. It's just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don't until they're allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never get the chance.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Then I noticed a small plate of complimentary marshmallows near Chloe's elbow and it suddenly seemed clear that I didn't love Chloe so much as marshmallow her. What it was about a marshmallow that should suddenly have accorded so perfectly with my feelings towards her I will never know, but the word seemed to capture the essence of my amorous state with an accuracy that the word love, weary with overuse, simply could not aspire to. Even more inexplicably, when I took Chloe's hand and told her that I had something very important to tell her, that I marshmallowed her, she seemed to understand perfectly, answering it was the sweetest thing anyone had ever told her.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the process. Like seduction, withdrawal suffers under a blanket of reticence. The very breakdown of communication is hard to discuss, unless both parties have a desire to see it restored. This leaves the lover in a desperate situation. Honest dialogue seems to produce only irritation and smothers love in the attempt to revive it. Desperate to woo the partner back at any cost, the lover might at this point be tempted to turn to romantic terrorism, the product of irredeemable situations, a gamut of tricks {sulking, jealousy, guilt} that attempt to force the partner to return love, by blowing up {in fits of tears, rage or otherwise} in front of the loved one. The terroristic partner knows he cannot realistically hope to see his love reciprocated, but the futility of something is not always {in love or in politics} a sufficient argument against it. Certain things are said not because they will be heard, but because it is important to speak.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
É um sinal de que duas pessoas tenham parado de amar uma a outra {ou pelo menos parado de desejar fazer o esforço que constitui noventa por cento do amor}quando não são mais capazes de transformar diferenças em piadas.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Tendemos a nos apegar a uma noção fixa das emoções, como se existisse uma linha entre amar e não amar que pudesse ser cruzada somente duas vezes, no início e no fim de um relacionamento, em vez de transposta minuto a minuto.
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Alain de Botton _ On Love
Uma pessoa nunca é boa ou ruim per se, o que significa que amá-las ou odiá-las tem necessariamente em sua base um elemento subjetivo e talvez ilusionista.
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