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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
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Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.
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Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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