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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Alain de Botton

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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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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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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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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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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Awkward Beneath Cynic High Idealist Standard
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Agent Ask Change Hope Simply Travel Wiser Wish

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