• We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

    Alain de Botton: We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
    Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.