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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.

Alain de Botton

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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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