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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

Alain de Botton

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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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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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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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