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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

Alain de Botton

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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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