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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Alain de Botton

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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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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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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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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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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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Age Capacity Do Hold Improve One Pass Shall Slightly
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Evaluate Modest Property Repeatedly Scene Urge Value World
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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Age End Less Man More Most Old Pack Should Strive
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Bar Cage Interest People Rattle Really Start
William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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Acute Between Endeavour Expectation Happiness Made Point Relationship
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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Amid Appear Divergent Each Hold Native Ourselves Quality Range Such Uncertainty View
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Compare Crucial Expectation Keep Mould Other Response Temper World
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Challenge Interest Modern More Other Prove Relationship Smartphone
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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