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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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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
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We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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