“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho”
Cómo cambiar tu vida con proust
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.
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“«fabrication de la petite madeleine de Marcel Proust». Un paquete de ocho”
Cómo cambiar tu vida con proust
“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
Source: Status Anxiety
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
Source: The Art of Travel
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 284.
Contexte: It appeared that the one area in which Sir Bob excelled was anxiety. He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others’ mediocrity—suggesting that a certain kind of intelligence may at heart be nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 80.
Contexte: Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.