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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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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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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.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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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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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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