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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Alain de Botton

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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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