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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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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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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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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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