Evaluate Quote by Alain de Botton

Wisdom helps us to love the world properly, as the creation of God, rather than for its own sake.

— Senoraroy

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…

— Alain de Botton

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression,…

— Alain de Botton

“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho”

— Alain de Botton

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions…

— Alain de Botton

“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything…

— Alain de Botton

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it…

— William Empson

“Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in brothels, one…

— Michael Foley

“Memory, personal and historical, is often accompanied by moralistic sentiment. Nostalgia is an act of escapism and self-indulgence, but to forget the past is…

— Ezra Glinter

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

— Gloria Steinem

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…

— Andre Aciman