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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

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We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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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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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

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Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

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Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

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Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

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