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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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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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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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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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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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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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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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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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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 keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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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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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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