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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.

Alain de Botton

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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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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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