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One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
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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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
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I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.
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Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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