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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Alain de Botton

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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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Closer Insist Media On Being Say Truth
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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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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Action Another Bad Best Cure Person Tendency

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