Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
ALAIN DE BOTTONLiterature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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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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