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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Alain de Botton

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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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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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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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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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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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