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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
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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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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For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.
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If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
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One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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