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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.

Alain de Botton

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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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