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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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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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I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

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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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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

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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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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator - a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.

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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

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The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

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