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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
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We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.
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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence no painting ever captures the whole.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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