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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Alain de Botton

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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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