de Botton Alain > Quotes

“But an advantage of more prolonged encounters with Proust or Homer is that worlds that had seemed threateningly alien reveal themselves to be essentially much like our own, expanding the range of places we feel at home.”
― de Botton Alain, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“Ruskin told him and his fellow students at the end of their course: Now, remember, gentlemen, that I have not been trying to teach you to draw, only to see.”
― de Botton Alain, The Art of Travel