It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhat is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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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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