Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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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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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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