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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.

Alain de Botton

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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Bitterness Console Depress Expectation Inspire Love Happy Part Plan Rather
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Art Hold Inner Promise Wholeness
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Book Console Perhaps Sad
Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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Audience Big Compell Truth Vital
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Actual Blame Enough Foul Lose Often Temper Those
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Century Dead Like Serious Strike Taken
The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Began Conversation Drunkard Fall Humiliate Public Stranger

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