You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his … - Pascal Bruckner

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The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

Pascal Bruckner

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.

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Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.

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An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

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By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology. . . that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure. . . on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.

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The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

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You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

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