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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
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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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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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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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
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Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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