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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Evaluate Modest Property Repeatedly Scene Urge Value World
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Art Hold Inner Promise Wholeness
Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Allow Call Continuous Conversation Dead Make Misuse Opportunity Period Presence Rhythm
When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Enemy Ever Hate More Myself Own
The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Art Care Dream False Idea Identify Make News People
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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Absence Calm Forget Grow Identify Indifference Longer Reminder Time Wounded
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Suppose Think
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Censor Fear Idea People Say Something Stupid
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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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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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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Activity Assimilation Desirable Draw Drink Eat Element Goodness Involve Transfer World
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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