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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Alain de Botton

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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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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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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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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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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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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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