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How to Suffer Successfully

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sometimes suffering allows you to pay attention in a way that you couldn't before

de Botton, A. (1997). How to Suffer Successfully. In de Botton, A. How Proust Can Change Your Life. Picador, pp. 49-84

(an English word, derived from Middle French) a fellow member of a profession

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a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea

—p.70 by Alain de Botton
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a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea

—p.70 by Alain de Botton
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destructive; pernicious

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pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new

—p.79 by Alain de Botton
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pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new

—p.79 by Alain de Botton
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