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"It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
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"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."
Quote by -Alain de Botton
"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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"It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear."
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"People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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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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"Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself."
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"The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness"."
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"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."
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"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."
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"The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to."
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"The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well."
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"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
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"We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think."
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"There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough."
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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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"The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else."
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"It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love."
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"There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed."
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"There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most."
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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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"The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call."
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"The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person."
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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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"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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"Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny."
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"It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great."
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"We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe."
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"We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds."
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"A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."
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"Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time."
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"Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unf�ted but life-enhancing thoughts."
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"Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere."
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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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"Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same."
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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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"As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents."
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"The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort."
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"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."
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