Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. - Alain de Botton - Quotesmemo.com

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Alain de Botton

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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