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Not everyone is worth listening to.

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
Everyone
Listening
Worth

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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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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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