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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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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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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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