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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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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Different Everyone Ourselves Return Sense Think
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Accumpilate Inform Intuition Judgement Real Time Unconscious
What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Bar Cage Interest People Rattle Really Start
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Greatest Speak Without Know Work
For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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All Round Coax Information Mind Newspaper Out Post Rather Read
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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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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Belong Church Music Nice Swallow
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Crowd Inside Newspaper Raed Stuff Tale Weird
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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Capture Choice Every Realistic Feature Given Paint Picture Prominence Reality Represent
William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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Acute Between Endeavour Expectation Happiness Made Point Relationship
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Achievement Affection Begin Depend Mature
Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Activity Dominate Dynamic Few Happiness Live Paradox Perhaps Quest Search

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