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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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