Alain de Botton Quotes, Art Quotes, Feelings Quotes

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

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One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.

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Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

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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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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

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We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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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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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

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We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

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It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

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