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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Alain de Botton

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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Along Difficult Force Greatest Oneself Travel
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Emouhj Health Mental Place Safe Settle
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Happy Instant Interest Terrible Think Writer
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Cage Career Chosen Entirely Most Old Selve Still
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Appreciate Cause Flaw Grateful Major Unhappiness
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Activity Assimilation Desirable Draw Drink Eat Element Goodness Involve Transfer World
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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Access Emotion Like Literature Look Range Saver Time Ultimate Waste
The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Embed Everyday Find Good Practice Problem
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Another Disloyalty Everyone Finest Loyalty Monstrous Proof Toward
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Suppose Think
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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All Round Coax Information Mind Newspaper Out Post Rather Read
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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Easier Except Happy Learn Less Play Practice Require Unnatural Violin
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Different Everyone Ourselves Return Sense Think
We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Achievement Always Fall First Humiliate Invest Price Sense Worth
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Challenge Interest Modern More Other Prove Relationship Smartphone
Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Conscious Employing Less Medium Pay Rather Substitute Supplement Used
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Beautiful Like Live Most Perhaps Problematic Receptive Thing
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Devilishly Direct Idea Nervous Prospect Relationship Significance Think
True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Desire Lack Love Presence Smartphone
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Against Best Disappointment Lot Protection
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Allow Call Continuous Conversation Dead Make Misuse Opportunity Period Presence Rhythm
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Above Bit Deserve Help Literature Little Other Prestige Reason Tool
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Censor Fear Idea People Say Something Stupid
Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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After All Get OK People System Tendency Top Unfortunate
Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth

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