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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain de Botton

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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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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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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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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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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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