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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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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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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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Age Capacity Do Hold Improve One Pass Shall Slightly
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Bed Destiny Force Life Long Nowhere Often Ourselves Romantic Share Stronger Stumble
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Built Matter Record Write
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
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Argument Attempt Couple Important Introduce Truth
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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