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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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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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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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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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