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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Alain de Botton

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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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