آلن دوباتن در کتاب دلشکستگی به شما کمک میکند تا دردها و زخمهای ناشی از یک جدایی عاطفی را التیام بخشید و ناامیدی را کنار بگذارید تا یک بار دیگر بتوانید عشق و روابط زیبای عاشقانه را تجربه و از نو زندگی کنید.
"Everyone we admire, everyone we find interesting has had, or will have, their heart broken. Our heartbreak seems to cut us off from the rest of humanity – secretly it brings us closer together."
"We can focus on the deep, sorrowful strangeness of love and loss rather than suffering an extended, excoriating confrontation with our own inadequacies."
"We make mistakes because, deep down, we don’t ultimately associate being loved with feeling entirely satisfied."
"We are miserable, but we are also strangely glorious: because we are, at least for a while, alert to the essential woe of life. We are entering – ideally – into communion with the widest and deepest examples of loss. At its best, our suffering renders us more compassionate because it draws us closer to the hidden truth of all people: To live is to suffer. Our pain stops being purely personal and becomes a tender lament for the imprecisely known, but utterly real, sorrows of strangers."
"One of the odder – and more profound – lessons of a broken heart is the eventual realisation that the focus of our love is not really an individual person, but a range of good things which – thankfully – cannot be the unique property of a single person but can be found in other potential partners, waiting for us to be ready to encounter them as soon as we are stronger."
فکر میکنم بهترین اثری بود که از آلن دو باتن خوندم. حیف که کوتاه بود. کمک کرد با دوستی که به تازگی یک جدایی ناگوار رو تجربه کرده، همدردی کنم و دلداری بدمش.