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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Alain de Botton
Anxiety, Might, Expecting
Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.44, Vintage
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.