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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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