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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Alain de Botton

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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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