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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Alain de Botton

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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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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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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