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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.

Alain de Botton

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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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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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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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 largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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