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Which 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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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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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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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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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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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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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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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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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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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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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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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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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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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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