If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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