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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one’s own doorstep was a shock.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.

I would hope that my books might help to counteract bleakness.

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