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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

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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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Enemy Ever Hate More Myself Own

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