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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

Alain de Botton

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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Ambition Confuse Envy Tangle
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Every Time Feel Little Possess Rich Satisfy
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
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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Anyone Aware Capable Disease Instantly Intelligent Love More never Save
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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