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Alain de Botton

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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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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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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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Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
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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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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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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.
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If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
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One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
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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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Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.
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