It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
ALAIN DE BOTTONFeeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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