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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Alain de Botton

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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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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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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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