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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.
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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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
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To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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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Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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