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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: Almost Falling Falling In Love Finding Happy Imagining Lot Love Love Story Obstacle Other People Person Right Right Person Story Street Than Used Would

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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

Topics: 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 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

Topics: Around Day Disgusted Finally Most Myself Nature Start Then Totally Waste Wasteful Write

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Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

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Topics: Achievement Compatibility Love

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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

Topics: Able Basic Bringing Chaos Coherent Day End End Of The Day Little Make More Order Satisfaction Seeing Something Way Work

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Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Advertising Alive Help Just Might Needs Offer Often Our Products Quite Real Satisfy Them Things Us Will

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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

Topics: Am Certain Gives Kind Me Old-Fashioned Sure Trauma Upper-Class I Am

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I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Believe Change Collaboration Come Like Only People Through Working I Believe

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The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Achievements Attracting Been Both Disguise Forced Humanities Matter Money Obsessed Prestige Really Sake Science Students Subjects Themselves Why World

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 20th, 1969

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