James Mattison

“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“The forthrightness of the middle-aged seducer is rarely a matter of confidence or arrogance; it is instead a species of impatient despair born of a pitiful awareness of the ever-increasing proximity of death.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love