It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us … - Alain de Botton

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The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

Alain de Botton

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

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