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"On Love" Quotes
"On Love" by Alain de Botton explores the complexities and philosophical insights of romantic relationships through a fictional narrative.
Quotes
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge.
Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.
The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
In love, the gap between what we want to be and who we are is the source of our torment.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
Love is a quest for completion and immunity from the dangers of isolation.
To be loved is to be enduringly and vulnerably exposed.
The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
Every relationship is a dialectic of love and freedom, no less than of pleasure and sacrifice.
