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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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 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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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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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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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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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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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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