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If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

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I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and ro...more

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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believ...more

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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

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The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names;...more

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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

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He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.

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Travel is a lot like love.

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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

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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...more

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Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have...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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Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselve...more