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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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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 most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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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.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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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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