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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: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
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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.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence no painting ever captures the whole.
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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