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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Alain de Botton

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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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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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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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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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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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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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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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