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.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPerhaps 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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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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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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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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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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.
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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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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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