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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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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Bed Destiny Force Life Long Nowhere Often Ourselves Romantic Share Stronger Stumble
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Anxiety Assuage Beauty Lose Photograph Place Possession Precious Sparkle Take
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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Biology Bitterness Class Envy Feeling Glacier Movement Physics Wrong
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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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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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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