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  1. Alain de Botton _ Status Anxiety

    Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.
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  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    But she-her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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  3. John le Carré _ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.
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  4. Jonathan Franzen _ Farther Away

    The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
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  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
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