What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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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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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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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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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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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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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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