Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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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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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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