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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

Alain de Botton

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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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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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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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 often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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