I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

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• Alain de Botton:

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• Alain de Botton:

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• Alain de Botton:

  Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

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• Alain de Botton:

  You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's

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  The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has wor