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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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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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