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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Ask Author Book Kind Know Leave One
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
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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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Answer Best Mind Morning Think
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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Actual Excuse Fantasies Job Learn Live Perfect Relationship
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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