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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Alain de Botton

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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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