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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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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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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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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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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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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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