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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Alain de Botton

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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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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Allow Category Enough Help People Themselves Weird Whole
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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
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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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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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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Awaken Certain Company Competitiveness Excite Generously People Sensitivity
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Enough Everyone Love May Real Strength Test Weakness Wek You
True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness

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