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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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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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The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
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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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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
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