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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.

Alain de Botton

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Anything Dream never Quite Reveal Somewhere
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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