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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Alain de Botton

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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