Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Alain de Botton

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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Long Nowhere Often Stronger Stumble
You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Day Hard Long
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Inevitable Long Return
We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Allegiance Desirable Oppose Shore Site Version
As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Absurd Ail Bring Day Frequent
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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Affiche Appraisal Congenital Uncertainty
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Happy Instant Think Writer
Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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End Feel Most
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Cease Hopeful Once
The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

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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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Another Best Cure Tendency
Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.

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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Anything never Somewhere
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Everyone May Real Test Wek You
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.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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.
ALAIN DE BOTTON

Delusion Desert Hallucinate Oasis Prince Princess
The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Embed Everyday Find
In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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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Anxiety Between Day Humiliation One Wish
A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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