“Every fall into love
involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall into 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 of
love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be
free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within
ourselves, and through our union with the beloved, hope to maintain (against
the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in the species.”
Alain de Botton-
Essays in Love
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