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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.

Alain de Botton

We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Anything Hope Learn Pain Properly Something Suffer
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Argument Eel Fixed Grasp Imagery Like Logical Mind Slip Style Unless Weak
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Century Dead Like Serious Strike Taken
What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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Ambition Argue Author Focus Idea Make Own Success Sure Want
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
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Accept Generous Gift never Offer People
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
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Define Every Adult Great Love Quest Sexual Story
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Capacity Find Intimacy Rather Someone
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Began Consider Everything Interest Object Potential Release Value
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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Age Capacity Do Hold Improve One Pass Shall Slightly
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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Along End Get Idea Want Wnough Worse
It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Began Conversation Drunkard Fall Humiliate Public Stranger
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Ask Being Insult Marketplace Name Passerby Restore
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Age End Less Man More Most Old Pack Should Strive

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