Best Quotes by Alain de Botton (Top 10)
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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?
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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