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I can't understand people who don't like chocolate. I was once going out with aguy, this guy Robert I was telling you about, and I was never reallycomfortable with him, but I couldn't work out why. Then one day it all becameclear: he didn't like chocolate. I mean he didn't just not love it, this guyactually hated it. You could have put a bar in front of him and he wouldn'thave touched it. That kind of thinking is so far removed from anything I canrelate to, you know. Well, after that, you can imagine, it was clear we had tobreak up.

Alain de Botton

I can't understand people who don't like chocolate. I was once going out with aguy, this guy Robert I was telling you about, and I was never reallycomfortable with him, but I couldn't work out why. Then one day it all becameclear: he didn't like chocolate. I mean he didn't just not love it, this guyactually hated it. You could have put a bar in front of him and he wouldn'thave touched it. That kind of thinking is so far removed from anything I canrelate to, you know. Well, after that, you can imagine, it was clear we had tobreak up.

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About Alain de Botton

Not to be confused with Alain de Benoist, the political theorist

Alain de Botton (; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004), and The Architecture of Happiness (2006).
He co-founded The School of Life in 2008 and Living Architecture in 2009. In 2015, he was awarded "The Fellowship of Schopenhauer", an annual writers' award from the Melbourne Writers Festival, for that work.