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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by 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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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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