The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhat should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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