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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Alain de Botton

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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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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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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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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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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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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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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Yet 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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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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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.
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