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Alain de Botton Quotes: The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
         

The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.


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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.



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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.



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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.



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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.



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



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



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



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It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.



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I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.



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I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.



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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.



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God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.



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I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.



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I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.




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