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We are not always humiliated by failing at things, he suggested; we are humiliated only if we invest our pride and sense of worth in a given aspiration or achievement and then are disappointed in our pursuit of it.

Source:Part I. Causes, Chapter II. Expectation
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Alain de Botton - Status Anxiety Quotes
  • Book: Status Anxiety
  • Writer: Alain de Botton
  • Genre: Philosophy, Non-Fiction, Psychology
  • Published: 2004
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