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Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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