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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Alain de Botton

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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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