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“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”
― A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
― A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
“We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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