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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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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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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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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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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Basic Collision Every Frustration Heart Structure
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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