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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

Alain de Botton

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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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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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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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