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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Alain de Botton

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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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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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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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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 materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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