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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

Alain de Botton

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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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