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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.

Alain de Botton

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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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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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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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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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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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