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Alain de Botton Quotes: We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
         

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.


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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.



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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.



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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.



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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.



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