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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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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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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
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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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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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