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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.

Alain de Botton

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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.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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