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Alain de Botton
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Alain de Botton
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
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Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn ...
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books t...
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in ...
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existe...
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement en...
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Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death Â...
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless f...
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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversa...
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it...
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have ration...
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a...
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