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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Alain de Botton

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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Book Help Hope Order Other People Reckless
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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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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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Anything Dream never Quite Reveal Somewhere
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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Every Time Feel Little Possess Rich Satisfy
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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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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