He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is … - Alain de Botton

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At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

Alain de Botton

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Depress, Depressing, Expectations, Hear, Mean, Plan

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

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

Censored, Ideas, People, Stupid

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

Supposed, Think, Thinking

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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.

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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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