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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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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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