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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Alain de Botton

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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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