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Alain de Botton

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."

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Donna Grant

"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."

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Donna Grant

"And too soon Marred are those so early Made."

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Donna Grant

"Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them."

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Donna Grant

"To waste time is to lose life."

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Donna Grant

"More. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again..........anything."

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Donna Grant

"Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above."

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Donna Grant

"One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me."

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Donna Grant

"The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth."

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Donna Grant

"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire."

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Alain de Botton
"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."

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Alain de Botton
"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."

Identity

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Alain de Botton
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."

Marriage

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Alain de Botton
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

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Alain de Botton
"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."

People

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Alain de Botton
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."

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Alain de Botton
"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."

Psychology

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Alain de Botton
"My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense."

Belief

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Alain de Botton
"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."

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Alain de Botton
"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."

Identity

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