The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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