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I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Also Associated Being Common Common Sense Family Like Medical Practical Sense Thoughtful Values

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A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Gap Gray Them

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My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Boring Office Quiet

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Bad Best Cure Developed Else Fully See Someone Tendencies Them

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I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Character Deeper English Possible Think Very I Think

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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aristocrat Biography Different Family French Immigrant Interpreted Jews Sometimes Upbringing Very Were

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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

Topics: Day Father Finish Get Going Job Minute Nine Studies Times Were You Your

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Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Experience Feeling Love Love Is Often Spontaneously Think You

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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

Topics: Bit Days Disloyal Early Early Days Feelings Little Little Bit Love Love You Pro Romantic You

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I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Children Convincing Interesting Laughed Myself Necessarily Religion Still Tell Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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