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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Alain de Botton

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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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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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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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