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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Alain de Botton

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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Ache Belly Complaint Down Ego Fragile Ignore Universe
Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Awkward Beneath Cynic High Idealist Standard
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Evaluate Modest Property Repeatedly Scene Urge Value World
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Normal Very Only People Think Well
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 Hurt Light Look Victim Wound
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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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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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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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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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