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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.

Alain de Botton

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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Already Behaviour Design Force Mechanism Ourselves Patiently Unlearn
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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