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Cannot Quotes by Alain de Botton
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we…
- The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who…
- Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced…
- Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
- The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new…
- It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the…
- Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.…
- Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should…
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden