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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Alain de Botton

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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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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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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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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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