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.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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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.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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