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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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