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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
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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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I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
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