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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Alain de Botton

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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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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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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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