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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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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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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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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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