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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Alain de Botton

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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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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