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Alain De Botton Quotes
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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception (Alain De Botton Quotes)
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself (Alain De Botton Quotes)
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods (Alain De Botton Quotes)
We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so (Alain De Botton Quotes)
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture (Alain De Botton Quotes)
As the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite (Alain De Botton Quotes)
We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to (Alain De Botton Quotes)
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence (Alain De Botton Quotes)
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity (Alain De Botton Quotes)
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan (Alain De Botton Quotes)
... if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food (Alain De Botton Quotes)
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love (Alain De Botton Quotes)
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny (Alain De Botton Quotes)