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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.

Alain de Botton

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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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