People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
ALAIN DE BOTTONMust being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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