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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Alain de Botton

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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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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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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