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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.

Alain de Botton

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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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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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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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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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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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