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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.

Alain de Botton

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Anyone Bookseller Destination Most Number Talk Valuable
Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Apprehend Continous Dangerous Enjoy Feel More Otherwise
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Close Come Find Something Understanding
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Above Creature Descendant Happiness Impossible Longer Minute Worry
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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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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Depend Happy Look Only Realise Thing Way
The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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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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Absence Calm Forget Grow Identify Indifference Longer Reminder Time Wounded
What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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