We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had t…

Alain de Botton
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We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. ✨ Alain de Botton (2015). On Love: A Novel, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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