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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

Alain de Botton

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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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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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