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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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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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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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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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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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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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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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