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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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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Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
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Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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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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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.
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The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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