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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

Alain de Botton

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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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We need objects to remind us of the commitments we’ve made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we’re in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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 greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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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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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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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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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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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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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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