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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Alain de Botton

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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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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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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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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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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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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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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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