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

Alain de Botton

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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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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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger
Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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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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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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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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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain

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