An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
ALAIN DE BOTTONInsomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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