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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.

Alain de Botton

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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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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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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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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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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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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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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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