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.
ALAIN DE BOTTONIf we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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