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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Alain de Botton

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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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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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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