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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
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It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
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