Alain de Botton: Frasi in inglese

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“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”

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Origine: On Love

“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… We suffer, therefore we think.”

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Origine: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

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“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

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Alain de Botton libro Architettura e felicità

Origine: The Architecture of Happiness

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

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“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually”

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Origine: The Course of Love

“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”

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“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”

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Origine: The Course of Love

“Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”

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“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”

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Variante: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Origine: The Course of Love

“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”

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Origine: The Course of Love

“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”

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Origine: Essays in Love

“The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.”

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Alain de Botton libro Status Anxiety

Origine: Status Anxiety