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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Alain de Botton

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Happy Instant Interest Terrible Think Writer
Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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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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Belonging Desperate Feeling Lost Much Optimism Reason
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Devotion Religion replace Reverence Secular Touchstone World
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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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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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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