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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

Alain de Botton

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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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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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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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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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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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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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