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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.

Alain de Botton

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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.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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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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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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