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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

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As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

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I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

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...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

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Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

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