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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

Alain de Botton

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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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