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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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Always
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Emotionally

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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto. (p123) Architecture of Happiness
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Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone they're for all of us.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.
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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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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
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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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Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.
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Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
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If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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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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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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