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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Alain de Botton
Lying, Heart, Frustration
"The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Alain de Botton
Optimistic, Frustration, Rage
"The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Alain de Botton
Loss, Frustration, Intellectual

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