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About Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton (born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. De Botton comes from a Sephardic Jewish family, originating from a small Castilian town of Boton (now vanished) on the Iberian peninsula.
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Additional quotes by Alain de Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself apparent: I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.