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Alain de Botton Quote: “We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration. He.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What we colloquially call ‘feeling bored’ is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We wanted to test each other’s capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “A silence with an unattractive person implies they are the boring one, a silence with an attractive one leaves you certain it is you who are impossibly dull.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: ‘Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people’s tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What we find beautiful and what we see as attractive are indicators of what we crave in order to become properly ‘whole’.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The motor of our ingenuity is the question ‘Does it have to be like this?’, from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The constant calls of the screens, some accompanied by the impatient pulsing of a cursor, suggest with what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It’s clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What dangers are posed by those touchingly insecure men who, unsure of their own powers of attraction, need to keep finding out whether they are acceptable to others.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “There are people who say, ‘Oh this guy is quite thick.’ I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don’t mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, ‘No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.’”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “One of the privileges of being on our own is therefore the sincere impression that we are really quite easy to live with.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “There would come a moment with every book when we would feel that something was incongruous, misunderstood, or constraining, and it would give us a responsibility to leave our guide behind and continue our thoughts alone.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Our mortality does not call for panic, but for a sense of awe.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “No one properly gets, or can fully sympathize with, anyone else.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Uno de los principales inconvenientes del amor, al menos durante un tiempo, es que corre el riesgo de hacernos felices.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life – so he stayed, and did just that.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “There is, in the early period of love, a measure of sheer relief at being able, at last, to reveal so much of what needed to be kept hidden for the sake of propriety. We can admit to not being as respectable or as sober, as even-keeled or as ‘normal’, as society believes. We can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile and multiple – all of this our lover can understand and accept us for.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves – that is, brought back into contact with emotions and ideas of importance to us. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestice setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, but who may not be who we essentially are.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you’ll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities – and we should take care.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture – and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Yet we promise not to look around, either, for we accept that there cannot be better options out there. Everyone is always impossible. We are a demented species.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise.”
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