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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

Alain de Botton

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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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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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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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