There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
ALAIN DE BOTTONI went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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