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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.

Alain de Botton

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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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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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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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