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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. — Alain De Botton

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. — Alain De Botton

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London. — Alain Ducasse

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. — Alain De Botton

Alain-Fournier is — David Mitchell

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. — Alain De Botton

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. — Alain Prost

I did not live Chloe for her body, I loved her body for the promise of who she was. It was a most inspiring promise — Alain De Botton

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

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. — Alain De Botton

When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. — Alain Prost

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge. — Alain Robert

it seems impossible to talk of love and letting live, and if we are left to live, we are not usually loved. — Alain De Botton

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. — Alain De Botton

I don't want to follow the herd. — Alain Robert

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food. — Alain Ducasse

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual. — Alain Ducasse

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do. — Alain Vigneault

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. — Alain De Botton

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. — Alain Prost

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury. — Alain De Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. — Alain De Botton

Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss. — Alain De Botton

We don't wait for the future to come to us. We give birth to the future. — Alain Yaovi M. Dagba

Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild. — Alain Ducasse

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones. — Alain De Botton

I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts. — Alain Ducasse

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it. — Alain De Botton

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. — Alain De Botton

[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite — Alain De Botton

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ... — Alain De Botton

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life? — Alain Mabanckou

To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. — Alain De Botton

I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish. — Alain Ducasse

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. — Alain Ducasse

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference. — Alain De Botton

When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster. — Alain Ducasse

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down. — Alain De Benoist

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing. — Alain-Rene Lesage

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. — Alain De Botton

Love what you will never believe twice. — Alain Badiou

Confinement. This morning the plane was over the Malay peninsula, — Alain De Botton

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback. — Alain Resnais

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain De Botton

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. — Alain Prost

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. — Alain De Botton

East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450 — Alain De Botton

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is — Damon Hill

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences. — Alain Ducasse

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. — Alain De Botton

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. — Alain De Botton

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous. — Alain De Botton

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business. — Alain Wertheimer

The world forgets about people who are not useful. — Alain Ducasse

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work. — Alain De Botton

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert. — Alain Robert

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain De Botton

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. — Alain Resnais

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot ... — Alain Prost

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always. — Alain Badiou

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.' — Alain Juppe

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

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice. — Alain De Botton

Must being in love always mean being in pain? — Alain De Botton

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done. — Alain De Botton

The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country. — Alain Ducasse

When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. — Alain De Botton

BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility. — Alain De Botton

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car. — Alain Prost

We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested. — Alain De Botton

...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm. — Alain De Botton

I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller. — Alain Ducasse

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person. — Alain De Botton

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love. — Alain Delon

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer. — Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style. — Alain Resnais

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position — Murray Walker

Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain De Botton

Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine. — Alain De Botton

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. — Alain De Botton

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism. — Alain De Botton

Be my friends against the day I shall be on the brink of hell, as I was once before — Alain-Fournier

Bowie Comeback Makes Top 10 Singles Chart 2.52M — Alain De Botton

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. — Alain De Botton

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. — Alain De Botton

It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy. — Alain De Botton

I am happy and content because I think I am. — Alain-Rene Le Sage

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. — Alain De Botton

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did. — Alain De Botton

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease. — Alain De Botton

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk. — Alain Prost

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

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. — Alain De Botton

I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients. — Alain Ducasse

I was to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly, my travels began to bear fruit. — Alain De Botton

There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires. — Alain De Botton

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. — Alain De Botton

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