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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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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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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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