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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

Alain de Botton

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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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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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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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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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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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