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Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
~ Alain de Botton
Achieved
Because
Best
Best Way
Clear
Could
Funny
He
His
Ideas
Impact
Large
Large Measure
Measure
Outstanding
Style
Utterly
Way
Write
Writer
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Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Any
Could
Give
Just
Learning
Make
May
Most
Move
Perfection
Romantic
Up
Us
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Love is something that we need to learn.
~ Alain de Botton
Learn
Love
Love Is
Need
Something
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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
~ Alain de Botton
Any
Attractive
Believe
Even
Many
Me
Moments
Religion
Seem
Though
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Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.
~ Alain de Botton
Attitudes
Extremely
Got
I Think
Ideas
Love
Love Is
Many
Often
Our
Powerful
Some
Stories
Story
Think
Towards
Ways
Wrong
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Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.
~ Alain de Botton
Elite
Insist
Intellectual
Many
Murmur
People
Quiet
Scared
Shouting
Very
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Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Actually
Difficult
Difficult People
Difficulties
Discoveries
Forgiving
How
Hurt
Likely
Make
Moment
Most
People
Sympathetic
Therefore
Time
Us
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My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.
~ Alain de Botton
Believe
Dad
Elves
Fairies
Idiots
Joining
Magic
Nonsense
Out
Richard
Santa
Santa Claus
Slightly
Version
Who
Worldview
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My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
~ Alain de Botton
Clear
Education
Father
He
Made
My Own
Own
Paid
Then
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My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
~ Alain de Botton
Able
Aspect
Been
Certain
Creativity
Feeling
Greatest
Human
Human Nature
Identify
Joy
Nature
Phenomenon
Words
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My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.
~ Alain de Botton
Boring
Office
Quiet
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My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
~ Alain de Botton
Find
Hard
Long
Many
Move
Theory
Things
Us
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
~ Alain de Botton
Always
Attempt
Came
Out
Personal
Place
Sane
Stay
Very
Writing
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Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
~ Alain de Botton
Become
Ever
Never
Nightmare
Writer
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Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.
~ Alain de Botton
Experience
Feeling
Love
Love Is
Often
Spontaneously
Think
You
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
~ Alain de Botton
Atmosphere
Bad
Become
Being
Community
Depending
Depends
Good
Great
Live
Lot
Out
Paper
Particular
Sent
Sounds
Space
Tend
Within
Workplace
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One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.
~ Alain de Botton
Aspects
Fully
Most
Need
Office
Welcome
Work
You
Yourself
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Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
~ Alain de Botton
Adulthood
Axis
Both
Child
Different
Each
End
First
Long
Love
Loved
May
Mean
Once
Parent
Party
Want
Were
Why
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Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.
~ Alain de Botton
Attack
Become
Child
Distress
Explicit
Frightened
Good
Hearing
How
Instead
Know
Listening
Lonely
Means
Most
Out
Pain
Parent
Parents
Reliable
Safest
Say
Then
Thing
Unfairly
Very
Which
Words
World
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Parents don't reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.
~ Alain de Botton
After
Any
Back
Been
Bitten
Childcare
Clothes
Day
Expect
Favour
Fought
How
Loves
Off
Often
Parent
Parents
Returned
Reveal
Significant
Take
Tears
Tired
Tongue
Too
Way
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