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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Alain de Botton

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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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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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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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