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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Alain de Botton

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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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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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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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We need objects to remind us of the commitments we’ve made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we’re in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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