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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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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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