Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done … - Alain de Botton

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To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

Alain de Botton

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

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To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

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. . . a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

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