A few years ago, I started wearing this as a uniform of sorts. It has removed all my anxieties about clothing. I now know what I'll be wearing in both summer and winter.
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Alain de Botton
Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
Switzerland / United Kingdom
Arts and letters
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failure. I dream of chapters I haven't written and things that I forgot to say in books I wrote three or seven years ago.
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