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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Alain de Botton

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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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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 seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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