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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.

Alain de Botton

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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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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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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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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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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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