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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Alain de Botton

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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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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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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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 company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Balance Everything Fight Life Such Thing Unbalance Work
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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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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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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