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The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.
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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