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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

Alain de Botton

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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Great Hate Live Long Themselves
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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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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