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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.

Alain de Botton

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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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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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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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Devote Enough Entire Good Job Life Practically
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Another Disloyalty Everyone Finest Loyalty Monstrous Proof Toward
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Dependent Derive Destination Journey Mindset More Pleasure
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Accept Generous Gift never Offer People
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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