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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

Alain de Botton

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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
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Attention Fortune Greater Look People Reason Respect Seek Straight
Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Dance Forgot Glamorous Insomnia Term Thought
The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Analyze Clearly Closely Consider Eroticism Excitement Feel More Understand
Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Anticipation Instrument Memory Selection Similar Simplification
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Book Console Perhaps Sad
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Annoy Learn Look Most People Significant Thing
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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Emotional End Feeling Married People Powerful Uncertain
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Essence Exist Existing Love Perhaps Properly Someone Speak Until
As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Absurd Ail Bring Day Frequent Hurt Light Look Victim Wound
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Actual Excuse Fantasies Job Learn Live Perfect Relationship
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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Capture Choice Every Realistic Feature Given Paint Picture Prominence Reality Represent

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