I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.
My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.
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