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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.

Alain de Botton

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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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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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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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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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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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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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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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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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