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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Alain de Botton

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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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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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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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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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