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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Alain de Botton

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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Above Creature Descendant Happiness Impossible Longer Minute Worry
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Book Help Hope Order Other People Reckless
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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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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 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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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