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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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