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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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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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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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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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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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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Normal Very Only People Think Well
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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