The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
ALAIN DE BOTTONYet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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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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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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