Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
ALAIN DE BOTTONGood 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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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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