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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.

Alain de Botton

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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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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Great Hate Live Long Themselves
The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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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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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone Listen Worth
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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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Book Help Hope Order Other People Reckless
Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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