Big, Big People. Alain de Botton

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Nowadays, all of us want to be rather large, don’t we? We want to be big, big people. We wanna make a big impression. But arguably, this is a fast route to mental illness because the graceful acceptance of your minuscule position in the cosmos is the gateway to calm and harmony.

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