The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
Alain de BottonThe challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
Alain de BottonA world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.
Alain de BottonDespite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
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