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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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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