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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Alain de Botton

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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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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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