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“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 kniha The Architecture of Happiness

Zdroj: The Architecture of Happiness

„Miluješ mě natolik, abych s tebou mohl být slabý? Každý miluje sílu, ale miluješ mě pro mou slabost? To je skutečná zkouška.“

Alain de Botton (1969)

„Nic se pořádně nenaučíme, dokud nenastane problém, dokud nás něco nebolí, dokud se nestane, že něco nejde podle našich představ... Přemýšlíme díky tomu, že trpíme.“

Alain de Botton (1969)

“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”

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Alain de Botton kniha The Consolations of Philosophy

Zdroj: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.

“The greatest obstacle to living a meaningful life is the sense that one has plenty of time left.”

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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“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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Zdroj: How Proust Can Change Your Life

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

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Zdroj: On Love

“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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Zdroj: The Course of Love

“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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Zdroj: The Course of Love

“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”

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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“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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Zdroj: Essays in 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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Zdroj: The Course of Love

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”

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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

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

“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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Zdroj: How Proust Can Change Your Life

“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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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.”

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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

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

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Zdroj: On Love

“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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“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 kniha The Architecture of Happiness

Zdroj: The Architecture of Happiness

“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”

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Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer