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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

Alain de Botton

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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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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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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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After All Get OK People System Tendency Top Unfortunate
Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Awkward Beneath Cynic High Idealist Standard
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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