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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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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as mushy.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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