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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.
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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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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Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
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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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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence no painting ever captures the whole.
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We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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