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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Alain de Botton

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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Call Demonic Instrument Telephone Torture
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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Everywhere Get Interest Kind Machine Machismo Opposite Really Sensitive Sweetness

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