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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Alain de Botton

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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
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
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Ask Author Book Kind Know Leave One
One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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Everywhere Get Interest Kind Machine Machismo Opposite Really Sensitive Sweetness
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.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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