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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Alain de Botton

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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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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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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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