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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

Alain de Botton

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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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