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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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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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Basic Collision Every Frustration Heart Structure
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Capacity Find Intimacy Rather Someone
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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