Alain de Botton Quotes, Art Quotes, Choices Quotes

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.

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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

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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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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

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Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

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Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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