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Alain de Botton

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Thursday, March 8 2012

A Devotional Handbook for Secular Skeptics: 'Religion for Atheists'

"Religions are intermittently too useful, effective and intelligent to be abandoned to the religious alone."


Thursday, October 21 2010

'A Week at the Airport' Will Make a Fine Companion on Your Next Journey

"...Sequences of planes waiting to begin their journeys, their fins a confusion of colours against the grey horizon, like sails at a regatta."


Monday, August 17 2009

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

In analysing labour with such intensity, the author offers us a worldview that is unfairly inflected with greater sorrow than pleasure.


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