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Alain de Botton Quotes

Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be, It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.

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