Humiliation Quote by Alain de Botton

“Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.”

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“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.”

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“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”

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“In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.”

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