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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

Alain de Botton

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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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