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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

Alain de Botton

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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Benefit Brush Disaster Fatal Help Important Recognise Seem Thing
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Advance Alone Better Capacity End Good Guarantor One Relationship
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Along Difficult Force Greatest Oneself Travel
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Art Hold Inner Promise Wholeness
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Century Dead Like Serious Strike Taken
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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Define Every Adult Great Love Quest Sexual Story
For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Almost Care Few Hate Love Paranoia People Remember Think
It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Before Bore Calm Easier Even Good Live Make Perhaps Stay
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Above Bit Deserve Help Literature Little Other Prestige Reason Tool
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Anxiety Assuage Beauty Lose Photograph Place Possession Precious Sparkle Take
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Badly Between Despair Difference Different Story Tell Way
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Bed Destiny Force Life Long Nowhere Often Ourselves Romantic Share Stronger Stumble
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Children Good Hate Mind Parent Someone Time
The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Action Another Bad Best Cure Person Tendency
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Different Everyone Ourselves Return Sense Think

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