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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

Alain de Botton

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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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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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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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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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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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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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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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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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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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