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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

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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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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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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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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone they're for all of us.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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