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Personality Quotes by Alain de Botton
- People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
- The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
- Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often…
- As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom,…
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