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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.

Alain de Botton

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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Beautiful Deal Endeavor Feeling Long Love Purchase Response Something Think Way
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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Aesthetic Capacity Critical Draw Good Happiness Material Object Satisfy Seem
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Challenge Communication Feel Great Idea Time
There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Choice Inevitable Long Loss Need Regret Return Time
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Devotion Religion replace Reverence Secular Touchstone World
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Conducive Conversation Few Internal Journey Mindwive Move Place Plane Ship Train
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Actual Excuse Fantasies Job Learn Live Perfect Relationship
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Book Completely Declare Done Finish Car Remain Start
Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Convince Difficult Feel Generally Only People Politics Quite Task
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Define Every Adult Great Love Quest Sexual Story
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Close Envy Feel Friend Group Member Ourselves Reference
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Anger Bitterness Came Forget
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Badly Between Despair Difference Different Story Tell Way
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Admit Confident Curious Dark Ignorance Know Take
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Event Existence Fury Great Ground Sense Spring Violate

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