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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
Alain De Botton
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It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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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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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
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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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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
Alain de Botton
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
Alain de Botton
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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