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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

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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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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

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Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

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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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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

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Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

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Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

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