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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

Alain de Botton

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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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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Bitterness Console Depress Expectation Inspire Love Happy Part Plan Rather
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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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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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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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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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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