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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Alain de Botton

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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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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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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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