A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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