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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.

Alain de Botton

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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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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
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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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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Community Differ might Need Precise Proactive Religious Soul Thesis
A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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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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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger

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