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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 are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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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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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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