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Alain de Botton Quotes: Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
         

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.


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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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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.



Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.



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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.



Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.



One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.



To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.





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This page presents the quote "Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.". Author of this quote is Alain de Botton. This quote is about aging, life, self, learning, self-knowledge,.