“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.”
Source: On Love
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Alain de Botton 146
Swiss writer 1969Related quotes

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 244
“Beauty will snatch us by the heart
and love us until we are raw with understanding.”
from (Calligraphy of Intimacy, p. 7).
Book Sources, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”