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  1. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    Why? Because no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment. Nietzsche
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  2. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.
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  3. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
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  4. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    French travellers were prone to be very upset by the differences. In hotels, they kept away from sideboards with strange foods, requesting the normal dishes they knew from home. They tried not to talk to anyone who had made the error of not speaking their language, and picked gingerly at the fennel bread. Montaigne
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  5. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence:
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  6. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends
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    It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.
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  8. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    a lack of love:between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.
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  9. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    Epicurus observed that: Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
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  10. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    كان فعل الكتابة مدفوعًا بخيبة الأمل من المحيطين به، ولكنها كانت ممزوجة - مع ذلك - بالأمل بشأن أن يكون ثمة شخص آخر في مكان ما سيفهمه؛ كان كتابه موجهًا إلى الجميع وغير موجه إلى أحد بالتحديد. كان مدركًا لمفارقة التعبير عن أعماق ذاته للغرباء في المكتبات: "أشياء كثيرة لم أكن مهتمًا بالبوح بها لأي شخص بذاته أصبحت أبوح بها للجميع، ولمن يود معرفة أشد أفكاري سرية، بدأت أحيل أعز أصدقائي إلى رف المكتبة.
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  11. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    Because fulfillment is an illusion, the wise must devote themselves to avoiding pain rather than seeking pleasure, living quietly, as Schopenhauer counseled, 'in a small fireproof room' - advice that now struck Nietzsche as both timid and untrue, a perverse attempt to dwell, as he was to put it pejoratively several years later, 'hidden in forests like shy deer.' Fulfillment was to be reached not by avoiding pain, but by recognizing its role as a natural, inevitable step on the way to reaching anything good.
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  12. Alain de Botton _ The Consolations of Philosophy

    we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.
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