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About Alain de Botton
British author and public speaker
Alain de Botton is a British author and public speaker known for writing about contemporary life and for making philosophy feel useful in everyday settings. His work often turns to common experiences and asks how ideas can help explain them. Among his best-known books are Essays in Love, which sold two million copies, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Status Anxiety, and The Architecture of Happiness.
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More Pessimism quotes
- “All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to app…”Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.”George Will
- “Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre can…”W.B. Yeats
More Love quotes
- “It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The w…”Nina LaCour
- “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never…”Khalil Gibran
- “You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.”Henrik Ibsen
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Books by Alain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
2008
The news
2014
The course of love
2016
Religion for Atheists
2012
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
2009