We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something … - Alain de Botton

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My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear. 'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

Alain de Botton

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped. . . We suffer, therefore we think.

Pain, Problem, Suffering, Think, Thinking

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

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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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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If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

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You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

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