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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.

Alain de Botton

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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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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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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Biscuit Carpet Childhood Day Light Most Photo Smell Store Texture

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