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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Alain de Botton

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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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