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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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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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