A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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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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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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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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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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