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Very Quotes by Alain de Botton
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to…
- My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you…
- For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
- The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a…
- Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
- 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.…
- 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…
- The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
- I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So…
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