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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Alain de Botton

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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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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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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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