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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Alain de Botton

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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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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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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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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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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Great Hate Live Long Themselves
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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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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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.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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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.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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