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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.
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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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If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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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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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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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Alain de Botton
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
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