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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Alain de Botton

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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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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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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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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Art Different Help Knowledge Pain People Philosophy Way Word
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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