The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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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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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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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 moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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