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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.

Alain de Botton

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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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
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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Belong Church Music Nice Swallow
Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
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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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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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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Content Less Perhaps Play Practice Require Well
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Gym Need People Readily Resist Some Work

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