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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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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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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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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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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain
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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Ambition Confuse Envy Tangle
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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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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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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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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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Bar Cage Interest People Rattle Really Start
Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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