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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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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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The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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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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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
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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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To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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