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“Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.” quote by Alain de Botton — Download Open image

“Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.”

Alain de Botton

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“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.”

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“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.”

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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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“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.”

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Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

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“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires…

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“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements…

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I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

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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…

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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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