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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Alain de Botton

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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Felt Incentive Successful
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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