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

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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

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Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

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We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare...more

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[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, ...more

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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we ten...more

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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds e...more