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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
“When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.”
“Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not. ”
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
“Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.”
“The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.”
“The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones.”
“Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.”
“In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.”
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