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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Alain de Botton

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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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