Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved. β¨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.60, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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