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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.

Alain de Botton

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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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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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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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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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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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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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