Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. T…

Alain de Botton
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. ✨ Alain de Botton (2012). How Proust Can Change Your Life, p.59, Pan Macmillan
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