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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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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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