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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.

Alain de Botton

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Close Come Find Something Understanding
Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Anything Hope Learn Pain Properly Something Suffer
It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Career Choice Education Mad Precipitate Ward Write
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Different Everyone Ourselves Return Sense Think
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Built Matter Record Write
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Age End Less Man More Most Old Pack Should Strive
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Activity Dominate Dynamic Few Happiness Live Paradox Perhaps Quest Search
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Mimic Mind Paralyse Properly Recusant Suppose Think
Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Belive Cause Divorce Most Neat Necessary Other Unhappy
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Adult Character Develop Parent Rescue Trait
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Direct Great Literature Machine Put Reality Simulator Witness
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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