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Books Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
- Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is…
- It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought…
- We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs…
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