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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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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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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
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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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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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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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