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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.

Alain de Botton

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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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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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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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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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