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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Alain de Botton

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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