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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Alain de Botton

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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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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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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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