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Place Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
- My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
- There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without…
- Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with…
- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by 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…
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
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