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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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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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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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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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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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