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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
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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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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
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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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Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
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