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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Alain de Botton

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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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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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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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