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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Alain de Botton

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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