Psychological struggle becomes meaningful only when the person opens the door to it and develops conversance with it rather than denying or dissociating from it; many people struggle but reject their own suffering, missing the opportunity for growth.

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Alain de Botton

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You've got to kind of open the door to it and be relatively conversant with it... people struggle and they're just so like, this is not me... And I'm not going to talk about it.

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Everythinglessness Conversations: Alain de BottonAlexander Wolfe
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:00:00 PM

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