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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.

Alain de Botton

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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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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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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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