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Alain de Botton quotes about small

English Writer December 20, 1969

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Alain de Botton quote: "To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense..."
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect. Alain de Botton
What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. Alain de Botton
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfted but life-enhancing thoughts. Alain de Botton
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. Alain de Botton

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