Alain de Botton Quotes About Choices
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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