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“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical, but it is true: only the person who can be alone can love.”

— Alain de Botton

Essays in Love

From de Botton's 1993 book Essays in Love, exploring the paradox that genuine love requires the capacity for solitude.

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