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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Alain de Botton

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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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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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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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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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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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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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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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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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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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