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Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
~ Alain de Botton
Bad
Concepts
Describe
Doing
Feel
Feel Good
Good
Heaven
Hell
Help
How
Invented
Like
Nice
Only
Own
Reward
Someone
Virtue
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We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
~ Alain de Botton
Embrace
Enough
Frustration
Life
Marriage
Properly
Ready
Strong
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We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.
~ Alain de Botton
Equation
Even
Everybody
Explain
Limit
Love
Love Me
Make
Me
Our
Particular
Person
Supposed
To Love
Understand
Us
Very
Wrong
You
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We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.
~ Alain de Botton
Art
Aside
Certain
Dilemmas
Historical
Invite
Order
Our
Pains
Put
Quite
Reading
Respond
Specific
Works
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We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.
~ Alain de Botton
Anything
Anything Else
Else
Love
Matters
Must
Study
Way
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We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.
~ Alain de Botton
Carrier
Choices
Commitments
Day
Every
Evident
Human
Implicit
Important
Libraries
Meant
Most
Obscure
People
Philosophers
Philosophies
Philosophy
Produced
Professional
Sense
Spend
Subjects
Tend
Think
Who
Written
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What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Accidentally
Annoys
Books
Fundamentally
Incomplete
Life
Me
Most
No Sense
Rather
Self-Help
Sense
Than
Tragic
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What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
~ Alain de Botton
Bothers
Creating
Effort
Emphasis
Encounter
Food
Gathering
Me
Meeting
Much
Only
Part
Rather
Right
Small
Small Part
Successful
Than
Whereas
Whether
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What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Argue
Argument
Finding
Know
Life
My Life
Nevertheless
Oneself
Phenomenon
Saying
Small
Then
Thing
Too
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What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
~ Alain de Botton
Been
Call
First
Has-Been
Hijacked
Love
Love Is
Moments
Moving
Only
Our
Start
Understanding
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When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.
~ Alain de Botton
Harm
Popular
Reason
Restaurant
Starts
Too
You
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
~ Alain de Botton
Basically
Child
Father
Grew
I See
Like
Richard
See
Someone
Up
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When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.
~ Alain de Botton
All Day
Another
Around
Day
Days
I Write
Like
Meeting
Other
Out
Run
Sit
Thinking
Varies
World
Write
Writing
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When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
~ Alain de Botton
Became
Before
Beyond
Business
Card
Continue
Down
Forever
Going
Human
Identities
Long
Once
Our
People
Put
Remember
Stretch
Tools
Useful
Well
Were
Will
Work
Workers
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Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Anxiety
Approach
Career
Children
Day
Death
Down
Friendship
Instruction
Learn
Management
Pursuit
Raising
Relationships
Sort
Student
Stuff
Where
Wise
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Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.
~ Alain de Botton
Able
Basic
Bringing
Chaos
Coherent
Day
End
End Of The Day
Little
Make
More
Order
Satisfaction
Seeing
Something
Way
Work
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You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.
~ Alain de Botton
Continue
Decision
Despair
Die
Fine
Gone
Hopes
Life
Many
Marriage
Normal
Often
Order
Sign
Sometimes
Think
Took
Track
Will
Worst
Wrong
You
Your
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