Alain De Botton quotes

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

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

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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