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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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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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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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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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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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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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