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“It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.”
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“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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“It seems that in our society Christianity has made permanent inroads in the eye-for-an-eye department but has made little progress on the practical application of forgiveness.”
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“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”
― Stay Awake
― Stay Awake
Alain de Botton
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