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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Alain de Botton

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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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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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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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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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