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“No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.”

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Mira Grant is an American author known for her works in science fiction and horror. Her novels often blend political satire with elements of science fiction, earning her a dedicated fan base. more

“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.”

Knows World Want Giving Different Home Reality Forget Streets Perspective Giving Up Normal Alternatives Just One Never Giving Up

Author:Alain de Botton

“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.”

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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

World Values Scene Urges Modest Evaluate Proust

Book:How Proust Can Change Your Life

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.”

Men Should Ends Age Ready Strive Old Age

Author:Alain de Botton

“When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.”

People Humans Wells Long Remember Forever Identity Tools Workers Cards Business Card

Author:Alain de Botton

“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”

Ifs May Values Culture Love Is Quality Missing Ambition Pursuit Our Love

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

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