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Actually Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
- It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and…
- Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
- Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.…
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