“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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