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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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