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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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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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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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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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We need objects to remind us of the commitments we’ve made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we’re in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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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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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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