Is illusion the source of happiness? This question philosopher and columnist Stine Jensen put to Alain de Botton. In his latest book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, launched at Winternachten, he finds happiness in work. 'Our work will at any rate have formed a perfect bubble in order to project our urge for perfection.' In his best-sellers How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy De Botton provided clues how to enjoy life more with the aid of writers like Nietzsche, Stendhal and Proust.

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