Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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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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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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