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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.

Alain de Botton

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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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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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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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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 fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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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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