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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Alain de Botton

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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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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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