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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Alain de Botton

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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Devotion Religion replace Reverence Secular Touchstone World
True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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