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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

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The second hugely seductive move is to signal that we view the other person with a mixture of tenderness and realism. It’s often imagined that it’ll b...more

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

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Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of fa...more

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We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare...more

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Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or e...more

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we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

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We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are looking to re-create, within our adult relationships,...more

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Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

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...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are ...more