Must being in love always mean being in pain?
ALAIN DE BOTTONThese 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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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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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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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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