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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Alain de Botton

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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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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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger
Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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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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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.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Apparently Blunt Connect Esoteric Larger One Question Smaller
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Confidence Many Maturity Opinion Thing
How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Another Coming Connect Darker Mist Process Root Sketch Stem Tree
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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