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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Alain de Botton

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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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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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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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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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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
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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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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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
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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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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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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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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