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

Alain de Botton

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

Along Difficult Force Greatest Oneself Travel
The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Closer Insist Media On Being Say Truth
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves
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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Curiosity Distance Extend Huge Outward Picture Question Small Some Time
Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Control Crazy Know Maturity Try Under
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Greatest Speak Without Know Work
Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Conviction Disapproval Face Oppose Philosophy Rational Supply
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Appreciate Cause Flaw Grateful Major Unhappiness
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly
The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Children Good Hate Mind Parent Someone Time
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Adult Character Develop Parent Rescue Trait
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Felt Incentive Successful
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Basic Collision Every Frustration Heart Structure
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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Belief Complex Evidence Man Oasis Palm Thirsty Tree Water
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Devotion Religion replace Reverence Secular Touchstone World
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Event Existence Fury Great Ground Sense Spring Violate

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

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