And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it&#39;s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you&#39;ll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Alain de Botton

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Written By Alain de Botton

Written By Alain de Botton

Written By Alain de Botton

Written By Alain de Botton

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