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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Alain de Botton

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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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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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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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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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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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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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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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