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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Alain de Botton

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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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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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