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

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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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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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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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