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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

Alain de Botton

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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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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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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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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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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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