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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Matter Much Only People Reputation Seldom Themselves
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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Always Attempt Came Out Same Stay Write
Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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Devote Enough Entire Good Job Life Practically
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Awaken Certain Company Competitiveness Excite Generously People Sensitivity

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