Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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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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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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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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