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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

Alain de Botton

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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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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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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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