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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

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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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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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