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Persons Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
- 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…
- Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
- The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
- 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…
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