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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

Alain de Botton

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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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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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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