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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.

Alain de Botton

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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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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 fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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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 virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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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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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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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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