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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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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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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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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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 fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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