Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
ALAIN DE BOTTONDreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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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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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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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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