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Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Are You Doing With Your Writing?

i see you carving out what has been, traditionally, religiously, called sacred space in secular culture. How come modern architects don't know that gooda is part of being a good human being? Whinthe impulse that we are formed by the spaces whereinas rigt? And similarly, evil, one root through which evil reaches us is through ugliness and a fascinating, provocative kind of idea. Imagine putting that to the average property developer.

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