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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.

Alain de Botton

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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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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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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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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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