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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Alain de Botton

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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