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Alain de Botton on romantic relationships

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Alain de Botton on Love

Alain de Botton lays out his ideas on love in the modern world. He states that Romanticism is the single greatest enemy we face against love. As with most things in life, balance is key.

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Essays In Love

Alain De Botton's Essays in Love makes the whole process of falling in love much more logical and hence less mysterious. There is profound insight into the addiction of falling in love and the difference between love and the transitory feeling of being in love.

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Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Romanticism has been unhelpful to us; it is a harsh philosophy. It has made a lot of what we go through in marriage seem exceptional and appalling. We end up lonely and convinced that our union, with its imperfections, is not “normal.

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Romantic Realism: The Seven Rules to Help You Avoid Divorce

We expect love to be the source of our greatest joys. But, in practice, it is one of the most reliable routes to misery. Few forms of suffering are ever as intense as those we experience in relationships.

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On Love: A Novel

Plotting the course of an affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, through a fit of anhedonia--defined in medical texts as a disease resulting from the terror brought on by the threat of utter happiness--and finally through the terrorist tactics employed...

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The Course of Love: A Novel

The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term.

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