The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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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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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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