Best quotes by Alain de Botton on Love

Checkout quotes by Alain de Botton on Love

• ‟ The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

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• ‟ Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

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• ‟ I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

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• ‟ The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

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• ‟ The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

  - Alain de Botton
  

• ‟ Travel is a lot like love.

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• ‟ What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

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• ‟ What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

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• ‟ I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

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• ‟ We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

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