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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.

Alain de Botton

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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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