We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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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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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.
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