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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.

Alain de Botton

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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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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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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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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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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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