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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Alain de Botton

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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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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.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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