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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Alain de Botton

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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Crowd Inside Newspaper Raed Stuff Tale Weird
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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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Badly Begin Exceed Fear Finally Nothing
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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