The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhat 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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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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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 the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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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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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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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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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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