The Course of Love
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Benji Strange
by Alain de Botton
Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.
We call things a turn-on but what we might really be alluding to is delight at finally having been allowed to reveal our secret selves – and at discovering that, far from being horrified by who we are, our lovers have opted to respond with only encouragement and approval.