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About Alain de Botton
British author and public speaker
Alain de Botton is a British author and public speaker known for writing about contemporary life and for making philosophy feel useful in everyday settings. His work often turns to common experiences and asks how ideas can help explain them. Among his best-known books are Essays in Love, which sold two million copies, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, and The Architecture of Happiness.
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- “I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there migh…”Alain de Botton
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- “I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.”Alain de Botton
Glaciers: more sayings
- “Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.”Donella Meadows
- “When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myse…”Jon Krakauer
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Bitterness: more sayings
- “Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not livi…”Suzy Kassem
- “People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.”David Furnish
- “Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a f…”Kenneth Roberts
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Books by Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
2008
The news
2014
The course of love
2016
Religion for Atheists
2012
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
2009