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Alain de Botton

"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"

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"The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'"

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Brennan Manning

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Brennan Manning

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Brennan Manning

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Brennan Manning

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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Brennan Manning

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

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Brennan Manning

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

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Brennan Manning

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

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Brennan Manning

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

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Brennan Manning

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."

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Brennan Manning

"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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Alain de Botton
"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."

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"What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation."

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Alain de Botton
"Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people."

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Alain de Botton
"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."

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Alain de Botton
"Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it."

Curiosity

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

Ideas

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Alain de Botton
"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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"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn't necessarily our fault as individuals. Society as a whole appears determined to render the single state as nettlesome and depressing as possible: once the freewheeling days of school and university are over, company and warmth become dispiritingly hard to find; social life starts to revolve oppressively around couples; there's no one left to call or hang out with. It's hardly surprising, then, if when we find someone halfway decent, we might cling."

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"Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours."

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"At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident."

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