If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
ALAIN DE BOTTONYou need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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