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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
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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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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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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 tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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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.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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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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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
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