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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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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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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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