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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Alain de Botton

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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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Anticipate Art Besides Forget Inclined Much Perhaps World
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Above Creature Descendant Happiness Impossible Longer Minute Worry
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
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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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
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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Attract Fall Healthy Interest Object Rare Someone
Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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