"If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends……" — Alain de Botton

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do… - Alain de Botton
"If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?"

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