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Alain De Botton Quotes
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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)
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)
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)
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)
To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish (Alain De Botton Quotes)
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go (Alain De Botton Quotes)
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days (Alain De Botton Quotes)
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there (Alain De Botton Quotes)