Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
ALAIN DE BOTTONIn the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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