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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.
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Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.
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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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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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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 is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
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We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
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