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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Alain de Botton

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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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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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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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 challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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