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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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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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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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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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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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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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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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