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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.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
― On Love
― On Love
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
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“Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?”
― On Love
― On Love
Alain de Botton
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