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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain de Botton

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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves
…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Anxiety Apprehend Book Continuous Dangerous Emotion Enjoy Finger Gloom Good
There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Childlike Journey Life Nourish Precious Relevant Secular Seem Vulnerable
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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