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The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
~ Alain de Botton
Art
Close
Important
Life
Meaning
Meaning Of
Meaning Of Life
Modern
Modern World
Something
Thinks
Very
World
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The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.
~ Alain de Botton
Books
Disinterested
Guru
Handing
Life
Me
Might
Needs
Number
Out
People
Person
Poor
Poor People
Some
Sort
Things
Who
Worked
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The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.
~ Alain de Botton
Best
Differences
Negotiate
Our
Person
Shares
Suited
Taste
Tastes
Truly
Us
Who
Wisely
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The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
~ Alain de Botton
Bit
Call
I Love
Involved
Just
Love
Love Is
Means
Names
Nietzsche
Philosophy
Really
Roll
Search
Selective
Short
Socrates
Very
Wisdom
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The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.
~ Alain de Botton
Airport
Around
Because
Catch
Difficult
Find
Gate
Go
Look
Need
Our
Plane
Problem
Surroundings
Tend
The Problem With
Way
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The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget.
~ Alain de Botton
Actually
Away
Budget
Business
Chauffeur
Clean
Common
Cook
Couple
Draw
Emotions
Fire
Fix
Gets
Hire
Instinctively
Lifetime
Marriage
Mind
More
Much
Must
Over
Person
Reconcile
Romantic
Sees
Small
Small Business
Terms
Throw
Together
Up
Work
Workings
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The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
~ Alain de Botton
Actually
Ask
Consider
Consumers
Find
Friendship
Help
Lives
Lovely
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Perhaps
Qualities
Repose
Seriously
Should
Solution
Surprisingly
Take
Them
Then
Togetherness
Us
Very
Visions
Whatever
Would
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The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Actually
Best
Course
Criticise
Else
Flaws
Gives
Gonna
How
Kinda
Love
Love Is
Loved
Me
Mentioned
Need
Often
Romantic
Say
Seat
Some
Some Things
Somebody
Someone
Spot
Teach
Themselves
Thing
Things
True
True Love
Trying
Us
Version
View
You
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Therapy and counseling can do wonderful things for people. But they have emerged so far as what are sometimes called 'cottage industries' - that is, as individuals or small groups offering generally quite expensive services to a few clients.
~ Alain de Botton
Clients
Cottage
Counseling
Emerged
Expensive
Far
Few
Generally
Groups
Individuals
Industries
Offering
People
Quite
Services
Small
Sometimes
Therapy
Things
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
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There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
~ Alain de Botton
Between
Eat
Effective
Few
Force
More
Neighbours
Promote
Supper
Suspicious
Than
Them
Together
Tolerance
Ways
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'
~ Alain de Botton
Being
Cambridge
Degree
Einstein
Expression
Good
Got
Guy
He
I Think
Increasingly
Literary
Mind
Must
Oh
Others
People
Quite
Reason
Say
Simple
Terms
Thick
Think
Who
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There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain a deeply concerned, committed admirer, but also a very worried one.
~ Alain de Botton
Admirer
Also
Committed
Concerned
Corrupt
Deeply
Getting
Hand
Out
Remain
Republic
Side
Threatens
Very
Which
Whole
Worried
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Annoys
Learn
Looking
May
Most
People
Significant
Them
Things
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There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.
~ Alain de Botton
Am
Certain
Gives
I Am
Kind
Me
Old-Fashioned
Sure
Trauma
Upper-Class
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There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
~ Alain de Botton
Because
Between
Boring
Chaos
Constant
Create
Die
Excitement
Gets
Go
Hurt
Inside
Jealousy
Messy
Missed
New
New People
Opportunities
People
Person
Security
Tension
Very
You
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There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.
~ Alain de Botton
Always
Control
Felt
Invented
Know
Lives
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Mountains
Out
Over
People
Religion
Rose
Something
Sun
Time
Very
Who
Why
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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
~ Alain de Botton
Alone
Boils
Charm
Down
Extent
How
Marriage
Shameful
Unpleasant
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Travel is a lot like love.
~ Alain de Botton
Like
Lot
Love
Travel
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Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
~ Alain de Botton
Arena
Intellectual
Irritating
People
Public
Sort
Television
Think
Trying
Very
Why
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Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there would be no obstacle to a happy love story other than finding the 'right person'.
~ Alain de Botton
Almost
Falling
Falling In Love
Finding
Happy
Imagining
Lot
Love
Love Story
Obstacle
Other
People
Person
Right
Right Person
Story
Street
Than
Used
Would
Would-Be
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