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Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

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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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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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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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The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.
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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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I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
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Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
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Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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