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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Alain de Botton

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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Closer Insist Media On Being Say Truth
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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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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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Direct Great Literature Machine Put Reality Simulator Witness
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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