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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

Alain de Botton

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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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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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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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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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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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