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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain de Botton

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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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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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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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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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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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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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