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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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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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Community Differ might Need Precise Proactive Religious Soul Thesis
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Censor Fear Idea People Say Something Stupid
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Enemy Ever Hate More Myself Own
Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Close Come Find Something Understanding
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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