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Time Quotes by Alain de Botton
- I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
- The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
- It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and…
- Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
- It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they…
- There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all…
- It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to…
- Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
- A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity…
- Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.…
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