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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

Alain de Botton

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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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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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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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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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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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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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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