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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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Age Capacity Do Hold Improve One Pass Shall Slightly
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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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Appreciate Cause Flaw Grateful Major Unhappiness
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Attract Fall Healthy Interest Object Rare Someone
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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