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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Alain de Botton

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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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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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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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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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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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