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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Alain de Botton

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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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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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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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