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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

Alain de Botton

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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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Emotional End Feeling Married People Powerful Uncertain
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Attention Fortune Greater Look People Reason Respect Seek Straight
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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Anxiety Defend Determine Largets Ourself Part Personally Sad
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Ambition Confuse Envy Tangle
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Close Envy Feel Friend Group Member Ourselves Reference
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Normal Very Only People Think Well
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Mimic Mind Paralyse Properly Recusant Suppose Think
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Architect Manipulation Prefer Shy Space Themselves Word
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
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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Fill Hire Humiliation People Private Publisher Tour Venue Wait
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Challenge Communication Feel Great Idea Time
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Close Come Find Something Understanding
The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Depend Happy Look Only Realise Thing Way
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Awaken Certain Company Competitiveness Excite Generously People Sensitivity
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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Actual Blame Enough Foul Lose Often Temper Those

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