"Intimacy is the capacity to be…" — Alain de Botton

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親密さとは、誰かと一緒に少し変わった自分でいられる能力であり、それがその人にとっても大丈夫と感じられることです。

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Translations

“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.”

Alain de Botton

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