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.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPeople who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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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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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.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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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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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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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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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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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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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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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