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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

Alain de Botton

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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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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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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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