The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWe each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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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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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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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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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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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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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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