Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
ALAIN DE BOTTONAfter 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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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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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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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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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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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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