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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Alain de Botton

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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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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 need objects to remind us of the commitments we’ve made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we’re in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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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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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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