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Properly Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may…
- The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having…
- Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost…
- 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…
- Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
- We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped…
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