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Alain de Botton

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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.


— Alain de Botton


#bitterness #forgetfulness #anger

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.


— Alain de Botton


#life #resilience #truth #age

Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent


— Alain de Botton


#life #sex #life

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.


— Alain de Botton


#new-media #social-media #media

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.


— Alain de Botton


#travel #art

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.


— Alain de Botton


#food

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


— Alain de Botton


#life #personality #weirdness #life

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.


— Alain de Botton


#intuitition #judgement #unconscious #experience

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


— Alain de Botton


#somewhere #dreams

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


— Alain de Botton


#confusion #craziness #desperation #good-life #life






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It was a bestseller in the US and UK. What's in a Marriage?: Argues that expecting one person to be a good partner lover and parent is almost asking the impossible. —The Independent

Negative reviews allege that de Botton tends to state the obvious from a position of privilege and have characterized some of his books as pompous and lacking focus.

In August 2008 he was a founding member of a new educational establishment in central London called The School of Life. In October that year de Botton was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in recognition of his services to architecture. His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life.

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