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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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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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