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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Alain de Botton

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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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Answer Best Mind Morning Think
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Beautiful Deal Endeavor Feeling Long Love Purchase Response Something Think Way
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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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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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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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Desire Lack Love Presence Smartphone
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Architect Manipulation Prefer Shy Space Themselves Word
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Attract Fall Healthy Interest Object Rare Someone
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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