The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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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 only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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