Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we …

Alain de Botton
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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it. ✨ Alain de Botton (2012). How Proust Can Change Your Life, p.82, Pan Macmillan
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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it. ✨ Alain de Botton (2012). How Proust Can Change Your Life, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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