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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.
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