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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.

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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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