L'idiot, je crains ce sauvage déguisé en homme.
- 1932 -
Alain
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I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

By Alain de Botton

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

By Alain de Botton

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

By Alain de Botton

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

By Alain de Botton

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

By Alain de Botton

Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.

By Alain de Botton

Proust was not well place to enjoy honest friendships. For a start, he had far too many true but unkind thoughts about people.

By Alain de Botton

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

By Alain de Botton

La fausseté n'est rien de positif dans l'idée fausse, elle n'est rien de plus que l'absence d'une autre idée.

By Alain -1900

Aimer, c'est trouver sa richesse hors de soi.

By Alain -1916
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