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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Alain de Botton

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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Enemy Ever Hate More Myself Own
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Challenge Interest Modern More Other Prove Relationship Smartphone
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Suppose Think
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Gym Need People Readily Resist Some Work
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Achievement Affection Begin Depend Mature
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Biscuit Carpet Childhood Day Light Most Photo Smell Store Texture
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
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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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly
Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Community Differ might Need Precise Proactive Religious Soul Thesis
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Felt Incentive Successful
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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Anticipate Art Besides Forget Inclined Much Perhaps World
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Benefit Brush Disaster Fatal Help Important Recognise Seem Thing
What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Good Number Oppose People Reason Worry
The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Depend Happy Look Only Realise Thing Way

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