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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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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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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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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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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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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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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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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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