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“Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.”

Alain de Botton

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

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“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of…

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“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

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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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