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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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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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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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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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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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