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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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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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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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