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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Alain de Botton

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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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