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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

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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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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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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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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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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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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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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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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