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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Alain de Botton

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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Choice Inevitable Long Loss Need Regret Return Time
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Achievement Affection Begin Depend Mature
It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Great Hate Live Long Themselves
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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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Close Come Find Something Understanding
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Mimic Mind Paralyse Properly Recusant Suppose Think
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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Basically Child Father People See Someone
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Another Disloyalty Everyone Finest Loyalty Monstrous Proof Toward
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Adult Character Develop Parent Rescue Trait
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Built Matter Record Write
The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Art Care Dream False Idea Identify Make News People
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
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Fill Hire Humiliation People Private Publisher Tour Venue Wait

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