Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material good…

Alain de Botton
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. ✨ On anticipation. www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.
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