Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone

Alain de Botton
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. ✨ Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. ✨ Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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