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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

Alain de Botton

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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Closer Insist Media On Being Say Truth
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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