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

Alain de Botton

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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Annoy Heavily Honor Invest Quite Someone Tell
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Anything Beautiful Difficulty Embarrassed Failure Feel
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Define Every Adult Great Love Quest Sexual Story
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
When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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Being Business Card Go Remember Useful Well Work
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Conscious Contribute Create Enthusiasm Guide Merely More Single
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Different Everyone Ourselves Return Sense Think
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
What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Good Number Oppose People Reason Worry
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
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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Direct Great Literature Machine Put Reality Simulator Witness
It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Accept Afford Desire Either Grow Poorer Possess Relative Resource Rich Something Time
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Beautiful Cry Expect Film Moment More Thing
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Along Difficult Force Greatest Oneself Travel
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Book Completely Declare Done Finish Car Remain Start
The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Closer Insist Media On Being Say Truth

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