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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.

Alain de Botton

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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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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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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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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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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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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