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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.

Alain de Botton

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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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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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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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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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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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