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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Alain de Botton

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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Embarrassingly Learn never Oneself Some Stupid Thing
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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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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