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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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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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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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