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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

Alain de Botton

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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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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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