True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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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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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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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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