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Inspirational Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
- I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument…
- What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
- I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
- Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
- My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
- The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
- Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
- Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.
- There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
- Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack…
- Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
- Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
- The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
- One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
- The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
- Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
- Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
- What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
- The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
- 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…
- What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their…
- Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento