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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.

Alain de Botton

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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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Close Come Find Something Understanding
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Annoy Learn Look Most People Significant Thing
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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Call Demonic Instrument Telephone Torture
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Ache Belly Complaint Down Ego Fragile Ignore Universe
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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Anyone Bookseller Destination Most Number Talk Valuable
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
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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Fill Hire Humiliation People Private Publisher Tour Venue Wait
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Capture Choice Every Realistic Feature Given Paint Picture Prominence Reality Represent
Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Achievement Affection Begin Depend Mature
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Heart Impress Keep People Place Refuse Special
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
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
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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Look Moon More Often Perspective Problem Really Small Think
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Anybody Complete Part Small Snob Take Use Vision
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

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