Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a…

Alain de Botton
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. ✨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. ✨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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