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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Alain de Botton

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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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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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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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Activity Elevate Entrepreneur Force Formulation Ide Intent Inventor Vision World
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Attract Fall Healthy Interest Object Rare Someone
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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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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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
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Emotional End Feeling Married People Powerful Uncertain
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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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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