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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.

Alain de Botton

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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Majority People Reason Respectability Stem
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Normal Very Only People Think Well
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Fill Hire Humiliation People Private Publisher Tour Venue Wait
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Have Perspective Play Stem Unhappiness
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Argument Eel Fixed Grasp Imagery Like Logical Mind Slip Style Unless Weak
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Allow Call Continuous Conversation Dead Make Misuse Opportunity Period Presence Rhythm
The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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Always Flawless Mediocrity Object Perspective Thing Throw Wish
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Devotion Religion replace Reverence Secular Touchstone World
We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Achievement Always Fall First Humiliate Invest Price Sense Worth
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Biology Bitterness Class Envy Feeling Glacier Movement Physics Wrong
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Age Happiness Luxury Materialistic Reveal Starkly Understanding
Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Anticipation Instrument Memory Selection Similar Simplification
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Enough Everyone Love May Real Strength Test Weakness Wek You
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves

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