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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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