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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

Alain de Botton

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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain
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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Convince Difficult Feel Generally Only People Politics Quite Task
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Bad Choice Define Leave might Out Series Show
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Felt Incentive Successful
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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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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Book Central Conception Emerge Happiness Property Reveal
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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