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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Alain de Botton

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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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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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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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