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Alain de Botton est un journaliste, philosophe et écrivain suisse, né à Zurich le 20 décembre 1969.

Il vit à Londres. Il a écrit plusieurs romans, en anglais, traduits en vingt langues. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. décembre 1969  •  Autres noms آلن دو باتن, Alan de Botton
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Alain de Botton Citations

“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho”

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Cómo cambiar tu vida con proust

Alain de Botton: Citations en anglais

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

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“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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“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

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“What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”

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“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

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Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

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

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“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

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Source: On Love

“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”

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Alain de Botton livre The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

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

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

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“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

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Source: The Art of Travel

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

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Source: 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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Source: 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 livre The Architecture of Happiness

Source: 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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“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”

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Source: On Love

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