Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhich seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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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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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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