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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

Alain de Botton

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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