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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.

Alain de Botton

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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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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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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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