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Oneself Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
- The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
- Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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