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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
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
— Alain De Botton
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
— 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
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
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
— Alain De Botton
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
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
— Alain De Botton
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
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ...
— Alain De Botton
... it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there. (p.23)
— Alain De Botton
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
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
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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
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
A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
— 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
Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be.
— Alain De Botton
The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
— Alain De Botton
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
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain De Botton
BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.
— Alain De Botton
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
— 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
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
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
— Alain De Botton
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
...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
— Alain De Botton
We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.
— 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
When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
— 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
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
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
— 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
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
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain De Botton
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— Alain De Botton