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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.

Alain de Botton

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Argument Eel Fixed Grasp Imagery Like Logical Mind Slip Style Unless Weak
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Appreciate Cause Flaw Grateful Major Unhappiness
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Above Bit Deserve Help Literature Little Other Prestige Reason Tool
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Action Another Bad Best Cure Person Tendency
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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Benefit Community Compare Interest Media Religious Social
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Anyone Bookseller Destination Most Number Talk Valuable
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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Beauty Deep External Inward Object Physical Possess Seek Tell Voice
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Majority People Reason Respectability Stem
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Book Console Perhaps Sad
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
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
The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Analyze Clearly Closely Consider Eroticism Excitement Feel More Understand
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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Every Time Feel Little Possess Rich Satisfy

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.

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