It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
ALAIN DE BOTTONArt cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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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.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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