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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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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Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
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It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
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Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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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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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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 price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
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