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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

Alain de Botton

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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.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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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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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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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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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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