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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Alain de Botton

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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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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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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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