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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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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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One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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