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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

Alain de Botton

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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.
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