The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
ALAIN DE BOTTONI feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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