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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.

Alain de Botton

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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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