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Love Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
- I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society…
- What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
- I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
- I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
- My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
- He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,…
- Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
- According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait…
- The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
- Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story…
- True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
- Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
- 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…
- 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.
- For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
- ...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
- What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
- Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
- We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
- Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just…
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- 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — 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
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide