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“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

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“Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

tags: commitment, morality

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“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

tags: life-lessons, literature

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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: beginning, plato, republic

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“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

tags: art, emotion

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