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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Alain de Botton

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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Conscious Employing Less Medium Pay Rather Substitute Supplement Used
I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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 only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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