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Call Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
- 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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