Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
ALAIN DE BOTTONNever too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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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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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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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 very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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