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.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWe should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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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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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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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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