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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

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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Another Coming Connect Darker Mist Process Root Sketch Stem Tree
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Book Make Moment Most Read Right
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Animal Capable Emotion Express Human Inability Notorious Suicide Time
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Believe Dangerous Immediate Invulnerable Reject Ridiculous Sex
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Devilishly Direct Idea Nervous Prospect Relationship Significance Think
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Career Choice Education Mad Precipitate Ward Write
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Accept Generous Gift never Offer People
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Absolute Afford Desire Grow Relative Something Time Wealth
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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Anyone Aware Capable Disease Instantly Intelligent Love More never Save
Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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Audience Big Compell Truth Vital
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Beautiful Cry Expect Film Moment More Thing
Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Awkward Beneath Cynic High Idealist Standard
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Adult Character Develop Parent Rescue Trait
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Emouhj Health Mental Place Safe Settle
The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Action Another Bad Best Cure Person Tendency
A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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Devote Enough Entire Good Job Life Practically

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