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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 of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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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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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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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