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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain de Botton

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Book Make Moment Most Read Right
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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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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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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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Anything Dream never Quite Reveal Somewhere
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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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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Began Consider Everything Interest Object Potential Release Value
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through 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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Belong Church Music Nice Swallow
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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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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