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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Alain de Botton

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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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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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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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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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