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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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Time
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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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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Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
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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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...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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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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