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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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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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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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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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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