Alain de Botton Messages
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.