The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhat is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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