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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Alain de Botton

Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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Come Control Despair Hope Suggest Surrender Total
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Suppose Think
The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Children Good Hate Mind Parent Someone Time
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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Concern Flourish Listen Love Note Object Ourselves Presence Register Shown View
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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Acute Come Define Landscape Longer Place Result Selection Travel
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Content Less Perhaps Play Practice Require Well
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Confidence Many Maturity Opinion Thing
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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Amid Appear Divergent Each Hold Native Ourselves Quality Range Such Uncertainty View
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Anticipate Art Besides Forget Inclined Much Perhaps World
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Always Emotion Lazy Option Quote
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.
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Admit Anticipation Fear Inability Leave Lie Memory Position Present Shelter
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
Not everyone is worth listening to.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Everyone Listen Worth

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