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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Alain de Botton

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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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