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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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Always
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Emotionally

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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.
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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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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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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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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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It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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