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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.

Alain de Botton

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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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