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Out Quotes by Alain de Botton
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become…
- My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
- In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work…
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
- Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of…
- Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.
- Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint…
- A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
- Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
- It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual…
- Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
- The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected…
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing…
- According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone…
- Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
- We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
- We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff…
- There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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