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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Alain de Botton

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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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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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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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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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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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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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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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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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