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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.

Alain de Botton

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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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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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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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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