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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

Alain de Botton

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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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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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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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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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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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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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Analyze Clearly Closely Consider Eroticism Excitement Feel More Understand
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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