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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.
~ Alain de Botton
Always
Around
Become
Did
Dump
Effectively
English
Fooling
Foreign
Funny
Get
Hated
Jewish
Joker
Laugh
Make
Me
Name
Otherwise
People
Prep
Problem
Quite
Real
Real Problem
Round
School
Small
Sport
Very
Way
Which
Who
Would
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I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.
~ Alain de Botton
Day
Father
Finish
Get
Going
Job
Minute
Nine
Studies
Times
Were
You
Your
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I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
~ Alain de Botton
Around
Day
Disgusted
Finally
Most
Myself
Nature
Start
Then
Totally
Waste
Wasteful
Write
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I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
~ Alain de Botton
Belong
Church
Music
Nice
Swallow
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I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?
~ Alain de Botton
Along
Analysis
Art
Capitalism
Day
Fascinated
Get
Got
Industrial
Love
Modern
Modern Society
Other
Romantic
Romantic Love
Side
Society
Supposed
Those
Through
Which
Wrong
You
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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.
~ Alain de Botton
Academic
Agree
Am
Approach
Art
Attained
I Am
Interested
Loose
Only
Philosopher
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Reason
Sense
Someone
Subject
Through
Universities
Very
Way
Well-Being
Wisdom
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I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
~ Alain de Botton
Able
Act
After
Alone
Better
Come
Constantly
Disturbance
Emotional
Emotions
Examine
Feels
Fragility
I Wish
Ideas
Inner
Introverted
Just
Kind
Lot
More
People
Rather
Reaction
Retreat
Sign
Simply
Spending
Spending Time
Than
Think
Thinking
Those
Through
Time
Were
Who
Wish
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I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.
~ Alain de Botton
Absurd
Academics
Against
Back
Band
Big
Come
Common
Enemies
Failures
Field
Had
Heart
Know
Loathe
Many
Me
Only
Polite
Seems
Should
Successes
Them
Together
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I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Been
Before
Off
Tried
Write
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If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.
~ Alain de Botton
Art
Associations
Bring
Buying
Call
Deeply
Emotions
Engage
Matter
Might
Our
Something
Souls
Supernatural
Then
Us
Well
Whatsoever
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If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
~ Alain de Botton
Bit
Days
Disloyal
Early
Early Days
Feelings
Little
Little Bit
Love
Love You
Pro
Romantic
You
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If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.
~ Alain de Botton
Course
Expect
Fantastic
Going
Know
Lonely
Maybe
Partner
Soul
Understood
Will
You
Your
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In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.
~ Alain de Botton
Argue
Art
Comfort
Console
Expand
Guide
Help
Inspire
Redeem
Therapy
Tool
Us
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In the early days of love sometimes, you will report an ecstatic feeling you have met someone who seems to understand you without you needing to speak.
~ Alain de Botton
Days
Early
Early Days
Ecstatic
Feeling
Love
Met
Needing
Report
Seems
Someone
Sometimes
Speak
Understand
Who
Will
Without
You
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It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'
~ Alain de Botton
Accountant
Actually
Almost
Blessing
Demand
Gift
High
Meet
Naturally
Novelist
Opposed
Other
People
Say
Society
Sort
Things
Want
Who
Would
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It's easy to forget how little strategic thinking ever gets done in the day. Judging by the ideas generated there, our beds have more of a right to be called our offices than our offices.
~ Alain de Botton
Beds
Day
Done
Easy
Ever
Forget
Gets
How
Ideas
Judging
Little
More
Offices
Our
Right
Strategic
Than
Thinking
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It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.
~ Alain de Botton
Achieved
Achievement
Also
Feel
Get
Give
Great
Lot
Much
Outside
Seen
Sense
So-Called
Something
Want
Who
You
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
~ Alain de Botton
Accountant
Beach
Elicit
Everybody
Hard
Hate
Holiday
Humanity
Looks
Makes
Mechanic
People
Respect
See
Silly
Very
Whether
Work
You
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Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
~ Alain de Botton
Because
Confidence
Criticism
Distinctive
Exception
Extraordinary
Failure
Her
Intimidated
Looks
No Exception
Philosopher
Philosophy
Price
Remarkable
She
Too
Tremendous
Way
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Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Achievement
Bit
Complex
Flaws
Good
Good Relationship
Having
Humour
Idiot
Immense
Important
Important Part
Laughter
Little
Little Bit
Means
Merely
Move
Often
Part
Partner
Relationship
Sense
Thing
Thinking
Wonderfully
You
Your
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