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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.

Alain de Botton

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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.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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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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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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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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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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