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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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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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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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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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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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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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