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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

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Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

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

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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

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Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

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According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

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Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

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