Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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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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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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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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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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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.
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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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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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