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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.

Alain de Botton

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Balance Everything Fight Life Such Thing Unbalance Work
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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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Suppose Think
The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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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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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Absolute Afford Desire Grow Relative Something Time Wealth
Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show

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