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The Art of Travel

by Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)

3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 · rating details · 5,708 ratings · 412 reviews

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow.

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Published May 11th 2004 by Vintage (first published 2002)

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Aug 19, 2009 Ben rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Ben by: David Giltinan

Shelves: read-in-2009, philosophy, psychology, sociology, transformative-experience

In The Art of Travel, Alaine de Botton succeeds in the difficult task of opening the readers eyes to the many perceptual enhancements that travel can provide. It is not a travelogue of wild times in exotic countries, nor an informative list of places one can go. The Art of Travel is abstract, and focuses on concepts relating to the inner-self and individual psychology; the internal elements that affect, and are affected by, travel. Through avenues such as poetry, writings from some of histories...more

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Aug 05, 2007 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

There's a certain self-effacing charm about Alain de Botton's writing that creeps up on you and which eventually becomes irresistible. Not one to shy away from big topics (love, philosophy, status, travel, Proust) he manages to bring you to fresh insights on each theme in a completely charming, highly readable fashion.

I've also seen him a few times on a BBC series about different philosophers, and the same charm is evident in person. He just seems like an altogether smart, together, sweet guy....more

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Jun 29, 2007 Eszter rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

in this lovely philosophical scrapbook, alain de botton tackles the question of why people travel. partly an eclectic collection of essays, partly a memoir, and partly a collection of historical tidbits, philosophies, works of art and found objects that de botton found cool; most people will probably find this book either pretentiously irritating or delightful. my vote goes to the latter. to qualify, i read this for the first time in the midst of a wonderful journey, so perhaps rereading it just...more

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Apr 12, 2009 Gordon rated it 4 of 5 stars

As with all of De Botton’s books, this one is really a series of tightly crafted essays, each of which could stand on its own.

I think the key messages of the book are well captured in the very first chapter of the book:
• Upon travelling to Barbados, de Botton wakes up the next morning and heads for the beach, then observes: “A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself apparent: I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.” As my wife occasionally remarks to me duri...more

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Jul 09, 2008 Craig rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: things-i-read-while-traveling

My favorite read of late is Alain de Botton's “The Art of Travel.” I found this book enthralling. I couldn't put it down. Its insightful and erudite in a way that I haven't experienced since reading somewhat obscure texts for a rhetoric course in college. The book uses authors and poets and painters that we all know and love to help us think about how to fully experience our world. The book isn't really a travel tome; and I'm not sure that I learned all that much about particular destinations. I...more

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Aug 17, 2007 Soo-Ryun rated it 2 of 5 stars

i couldn't put my finger on why i didn't think this book was as great as de botton's other books. but then i realized it's because of 2 reasons.

1) the focus is very euro- and christian-centric. obvo, de botton is writing about what he knows (euro intelligentsia), but perhaps a book about travelling should be about things outside your sphere of knowledge. e.g., why is it so exotic for french-speaking de botton to go to the south of france? why go to a postcolonial barbados resort and consider th...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Carrie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: grumpy, churlish, i, thought, he, was, much, older, than, is, travel, essay, non-fiction, memoir

This was a funny book. The Art of Travel is a collection of essays with a common theme. De Botton examines why we humans feel the need to travel, and what it does to satisfy (or dissatisfy) us. In each essay, he also looks at travel through the eyes of historical figures and other authors. [return][return]I had to laugh because De Botton comes off as such a churl, though I think he intends to at times. He talks about being in Spain and wanting nothing but to lie on his bed in his hotel room. He...more

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Jun 01, 2013 Anna rated it 4 of 5 stars

A book that starts off invoking the Greek term eudaimonia, or human flourishing--a word I have found beauty and meaning in since college--has undoubtedly captured my attention. I have also traveled a fair amount and was curious what this account of travel would offer up as important.

I enjoyed that philosophers, artists, and writers were invited to speak as guides in each chapter, and that the narrator was both witty and profound at times. Out of the many ideas to explore about travel, I think...more

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Feb 16, 2013 Alex rated it 4 of 5 stars

I felt it was a valuable read for someone who is in to travelling and a definite for someone who wants to go spend all their money on travel but isn't sure why ("it's just what people do").

It helped me appreciate the beauty around me and to really focus on assessing what makes me happy, what stimulates me. By getting a better understanding of this I believe I'll be able to make better decisions on what I want to do with my life, as well as simply where I want to go.

I'd always felt I should appr...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Magdalene Lim rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: travellers

I found out about this book when reading an interview with the founder of wego.com, a travel aggregator website. Hit by the travel bug last year, I was keen to read a book that would influence my perspective of travelling and perhaps give me tips on how to be a better traveller.

There are tonnes of Lonely Planet books in the bookstore that cover a multitude of countries and cities but this is such a refreshingly different travel book— the first of its kind I've seen. To be honest, I was not taken...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Gabrielle Trenbath rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Oh how I loved this book, I am just about to go on an adventure and I wanted to know why I always felt the need to escape to exotic lands. While I didn’t get a definite answer, my perspective did change a little.

I loved it when he was on the plane and he said “the clouds usher in tranquillity. Below us are the enemies and colleagues, the site of our terrors and our grief; all of them now infinitesimal, scratches on the earth....Carriage, takes me with you! Ship steals me away from here! Take me...more

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Oct 15, 2012 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: travel

I read this book in Kalaw, Myanmar, while on vacation to a wonderful and unexpected place. I enjoy de Botton's writing; when I was finishing graduate school I read The Consolations of Philosophy and it was just the right book for me then -- in the same way this was perfect timing to read this one. This book is about travel, not about destinations, so you'll find chapters on anticipation, travelling places, the exotic, curiosity, the country and the city, the sublime, eye-opening art, possessing...more I read this book in Kalaw, Myanmar, while on vacation to a wonderful and unexpected place. I enjoy de Botton's writing; when I was finishing graduate school I read The Consolations of Philosophy and it was just the right book for me then -- in the same way this was perfect timing to read this one. This book is about travel, not about destinations, so you'll find chapters on anticipation, travelling places, the exotic, curiosity, the country and the city, the sublime, eye-opening art, possessing beauty, and habit. In each chapter he anchors you in a place or two (the anticipation chapter goes to Hammersmith London, and Barbados) and relies on a guide (J.K. Huysmans for anticipation). It's a wonderful structure, relying on writers and philosophers and artists and thinkers to illuminate ideas that find their specifics in the specific places he visits.

De Botton is the kind of writer who excels at articulating that thing you knew, but didn't really realize you knew it -- and he does it beautifully. There were so many sentences I read aloud to my husband, so many places I kind of gasped in recognition and delight. Here's a paragraph about the vantage point that flight gives:

The new vantage point lends order and logic to the landscape: roads curve to avoid hills, rivers trace paths to lakes, pylons lead from power stations to towns, streets that from earth seemed laid out without thought emerge as well-planned grids. The eye attempts to match what it can see with what the mind knows should be there, like a reader trying to decipher a familiar book in a new language. Those lights must be Newbury that road the A33 as it leaves the M4. And to think that all along, hidden from our sight, our lives were that small: the world we live in but almost never see, the way we must appear to the hawk and to the gods.

The emphasis is mine, in the quote above -- it's the bit that made me gasp. This book is a meta-travel book, for people who love Travel as much as they love travel. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Aug 01, 2012 Kaung Myat Han rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: travel, non-fiction

Thoughtfully-written and thought provocative, ‘The Art of Travel’ by Alain de Botton has the ability to capture my attention at the very first chapter(which is also my favorite) when the author decides to travel to Barbados with his companion after glancing at a typical holiday brochure of a sea-side resort with white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, palm-trees lined along the coast with lush forested hills in the background where one can clearly imagine tall exotic waterfalls with emerald water...more Thoughtfully-written and thought provocative, ‘The Art of Travel’ by Alain de Botton has the ability to capture my attention at the very first chapter(which is also my favorite) when the author decides to travel to Barbados with his companion after glancing at a typical holiday brochure of a sea-side resort with white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, palm-trees lined along the coast with lush forested hills in the background where one can clearly imagine tall exotic waterfalls with emerald waters and colorful tropical birds. The first chapter under a major section named ‘Departure’ is entitled ‘Anticipation’. De Botton, the author, argues that it is rather irrelevant how beautiful or how alluring the travel destination is if the traveler suffers from a negative state of mind and filled with miserable feelings triggered because of physical sufferings such as headaches and motion sickness or mental sufferings like unhappiness and discontent with lodgings and food etc. The author states ‘Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect’. Furthermore, the author ends the chapter by saying it is sometimes more fun and interesting to flip the pages of travel brochures or visit an art gallery and admire the landscape paintings of a certain country than to visit those countries with high anticipations and afterwards feels very unfortunate and miserable when the person discovers the place simply does not live up to one’s surreal imaginations about visiting the place fueled by very high and often unrealistic anticipations. From the reviews I've read here, different readers have different favorite chapters. Unfortunately, I do not find other the rest of the book as stimulating and engaging as the 'Departure' section but that's just me. A must for any travelers who love to read! (less)

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Nov 27, 2011 Ajk rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who like to travel, man.

Shelves: fiction

I booked a flight that didn't exist.

It ended with me spending a night with my old best friend from high school days and a sit-down in a train station bar with a guy coming from Montana. So I guess I can't complain too much.

In fact, I won't complain at all. I got to meet interesting people, go to one of my favorite restaurants, and meet up with one of the better people I know. So it was fantastic. And a couple of weeks earlier, my uncle gave me a book and told me to read it. With a few hours in a...more I booked a flight that didn't exist.

It ended with me spending a night with my old best friend from high school days and a sit-down in a train station bar with a guy coming from Montana. So I guess I can't complain too much.

In fact, I won't complain at all. I got to meet interesting people, go to one of my favorite restaurants, and meet up with one of the better people I know. So it was fantastic. And a couple of weeks earlier, my uncle gave me a book and told me to read it. With a few hours in a train station and 6 more on a train, I got to.

I read The Art of Travel in a day, or to be exact, in about five hours. It isn't exactly a technically complex book, even though de Botton writes on philosophy and quotes Flaubert (among many, many, others). The concept of it is pretty basic. It's a travel book, but instead of talking about the "what" of travel (what place to go to, what to see, what transportation, what lodging) it's the "why" of getting out. Why do some folks feel the need to leave? Why do they go where they go? That sort of stuff.

It could get really pretentious and obnoxious quite easily. De Botton avoids that. He writes well, and he explains his use of different poets and high art. This poet says this because of that. It makes sense, and de Bottom makes fun of himself to keep it from being all too much pendantical.

And sure, it's a celebration of Europeanness and high culture and all that stuff that is so cool to rag on these days. My personal favorite chapter was his "On the Exotic" which discussed Flaubert's boredom with France and white-hot desire for Elsewhere (in his case, Egypt). And this whole tug-of-war between what it means to be French, or Egyptian, or even just what it means to be Flaubert ensues. It's a microcosm of post-colonial theory in one man.

A lot of the book sort of fits in with a bit of a biography on de Botton. Apparently he was left with a huge fortune and a Cambridge education, but attempts to live off of his book earnings in lieu of all that (or as in lieu as you can be with those sort of credentials). De Botton may be a traveler, but as he puts it, all travelers are travelling to leave something. He may have been leaving his family's legacy. Not because he was shamed by it, but just to see what he could do outside of it. This book seems to be an exploration of that part of his identity that others certainly have within them.

As a product of a whole mess of immigration stories and a kid who always wants to leave wherever he is, I can understand this coming from de Botton. My desire to travel could probably stem less from a desire to see what's out there as it is to leave here. I've bounced around, and never have been too eager to go back to whever I left. For whatever reason, I don't feel the same about the whole 2007 wanderabout.

So this was a great (and quick) read. Interesting and thought-provoking while being easy and flowing. I'd recommend it to any of you all who have the tendency to fall off the face of the Earth every so often. And it makes me thing, especially in re my "wanderabout" comment above...are we ~5 years away from a great coming influx of study abroad literature? Can you imagine how much unreadable dreck there's gonna be in there?(less)

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Jul 06, 2011 Jon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A very interesting little book that opened my eyes in a number of ways, and helped me to understand part of why I'm not a very good traveler. The first chapters were the least interesting for me, mostly stressing what I already knew--that "wherever you go, there you are." Don't go all over the globe looking for happiness (as Horace wrote)--changing your sky doesn't change yourself. But later on, in discussing the Lake District in England and Wordsworth (its first and most ardent admirer) de Bott...more

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May 18, 2011 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008-or-before, bookcrossing

The book had some really nice thoughts in it, one of which hit me - I never thought Gustave Flaubert had anything interesting, but his feeling strange in the country he was born just had it.

"I think I must have been transplanted by the winds to this land of mud, surely I was born elsewhere - I've always had what seem like memories or intuitions of perfumed shores and blue seas..."
On his return from Egypt: "My native country is for me the country that I love, that is, the one that makes me dream,...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Todd rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm not good at traveling, but I'm very good at hanging out. So I figured maybe Mr. de Botton could help me with the philosophical underpinnings of my trip to Belize (where I am writing this). Turns out I am much closer in temperament to Des Esseintes (the protagonist of A Rebours) or de Maistre (who traveled all the way across his bedroom) than von Humboldt (who explored the South American continent).

Mr. de Botton takes us patiently and calmly through different reasons for travel: to experience...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Brynn rated it 5 of 5 stars

"If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination." (13)

"As I lay awake in bed on my first Caribbean night, thinking back over my journey (there were crickets and shufflings in the bushes outside), already the confusion of the present moment was receding, and certain events had begun to assume prominence, f...more

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Sep 01, 2010 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

The world I look at every day is a novel in the making, but full of peripheral rubbish. The novels on my shelves are more condensed and filtered and worthy of more attention as they have been transliterated through the brains of people who actually thought for themselves and had something to say worth more than the diluted rubbish I hear during the course of the day. This is why I read books, to short-circuit the rubbish. The daily grind is just rubbish in the main, dead pools of wasted time. Li...more

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Jul 26, 2009 Bookshop rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: travel

I can't find any fault with this book and it's rare. The author describes perfectly the feelings I go through when travelling. The chapter are split into Departure, Motives, Landscape, Art, and Return.

My favourite chapter is Departure. I often wonder about the same things as I sit in the departure lounge waiting to go into my plane. The plane I am about to enter has left a distant country the day before, flies across Asia to arrive in Europe in one piece. It is about to transport me to a comple...more

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Apr 14, 2009 Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book doesn't propose new ideas so much as rotate our view of common experiences when traveling to include the reflections of those who did once propose a new idea. At times its frustrating to read a book an opinion that points you towards the superior reference of another's opinion outside the book you're reading but when I had a previous interest in that referenced thinker, I enjoyed having two readings brought together to expand on these shared experiences. I enjoyed seeing someone bring...more

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Nov 08, 2011 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: travel

The opening and certain parts in the middle of this book were dry and melancholic, not what I’d naturally expect from a book about travel. My previous experiences with travel books were that the journeys described help the mind’s eye take on a traveller’s spirit or wanting excitement, looking for joy, experiencing adventure in the new and exploring through the senses. However, after persisting, I really took to the author’s style of philosophical reflection on travel, which is what this book lea...more The opening and certain parts in the middle of this book were dry and melancholic, not what I’d naturally expect from a book about travel. My previous experiences with travel books were that the journeys described help the mind’s eye take on a traveller’s spirit or wanting excitement, looking for joy, experiencing adventure in the new and exploring through the senses. However, after persisting, I really took to the author’s style of philosophical reflection on travel, which is what this book leans towards.

De Botton offers an inward as well as an external look at one’s motives, incentives and habits of travel. By presenting travel in a philosophical vein, the author occasionally wanders into the spirituality of travel. Make no mistake, this book presents a very Westernized history and view of travel but still presents some reflections that apply universally. For example, he describes Gustave Flaubert’s obsession with the Middle East as ‘temperamentally a logical fit. What he loved in Egypt could be traced back to central facets of his personality. Egypt lent support to ideas and values that were part of his identify but for which his own society had had little sympathy.’ This example gives credence to the theory that some travellers find a home for their spirit elsewhere.

Towards the end of the book, some of the author’s insights found a home within me. He talked about how travellers need to learn how to notice beauty around them instead of trying to possess it through photography with a mind for consuming tourist destinations like fodder for cattle. He ends on a high note with another insight about the experience of travel depending more on ‘the mindset of the traveller than on the destination we travel to.’ The experience described is of a revered French writer who wrote about his travels around his bedroom (translate into locality). Exploring our home environs could teach us more about travelling than going away to another destination. I’ll have to remember that the next time I’m in the kitchen.
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Mar 05, 2010 Jessica rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, nonfiction

Like most books, The Art of Travel has its good parts and its not-so-good parts. I love that this book focuses on, ahem, the art of traveling, as in, the different little aspects that go into traveling and visiting new places. De Botton dedicates an entire chapter to the feeling of anticipation we all get when we are about to go somewhere new, and how when we arrive, without fail all our preconceived ideas about it are crushed. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the author rushes to explain,...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Ronaldo Ricioli rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2009

ncrível esta obra do jovem filósofo Alain de Botton. De leitura fácil e empolgante, o livro traz reflexões sobre o comportamento e as emoções envolvidas na arte de viajar. Recomendo o livro para todos e não pretendo escrever muito nessa recomendação, apenas colocar um trecho de Nietzsche que acredito resumir um pouco da idéia de Botton com a obra. Sensacional!

Quando observamos como algumas pessoas sabem gerir suas experiências – suas experiências insignificantes, do dia-a-dia – de tal modo que e...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Kelsey rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was eye-opening in so many ways that it's hard to know where to start reviewing! Alain de Botton, a well-traveled and well-read writer, takes a philosophical approach to getting the most out of traveling.
Besides writing about his own journeys, and sharing tantalizing details about the places he's seen, he also examines what famous writers, artists, and explorers can teach us about traveling.
I learned much. For one, it's mostly in the mind. You must be properly prepared to appreciate...more

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Feb 06, 2013 Elisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

At first when I started reading this I thought the book was pretty much pretentious drivel. Yes, the author is erudite and never lets the reader forget, not even for one second.

The writing style certainly didn't help dispel this first impression but as I got into the book, trying to ignore how De Botton chose to develop his arguments in favour of focussing on the arguments in themselves, I found myself intrigued.

I found myself nodding vigorously and underlining many passages. The points he made...more

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Jul 14, 2012 Jazzmin rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am a person who is just beginning to travel around the world, having recently taken a trip backpacking through Italy where I enjoyed an extended stay in Rome and Venice. I was recommended this book by a family member, who claimed that it would alter my perceptions of traveling, and possibly change the way that I experience and appreciate the destinations to which I travel.

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton is a book unlike any other that I've read on the topic of travel. In fact, it's less l...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Petr rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hezká knížka — o ničem. Příjemně se čte, máte radost z toho, jak je autor vzdělaný a kultivovaný a jak dobře formuluje (díky překladatelce formuluje moc pěkně i česky)... a nic vám z toho neutkví, ani nemáte přání si něco podtrhnout, zapsat, schovat pro příště. De Botton vás nevytáhne z vaší zóny komfortu (a sebe už vůbec ne). Na druhou stranu vám taky nepokazí náladu. Knižní ekvivalent ambientní hudby. Možná to vypadá, že bych to mohl shrnout slovem „nuda“, ale není to tak. Nuda to není. Je to....more

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Aug 07, 2011 Maria added it

I think I've read this about 3 times and each time I find the ideas fresh, engaging, stimulating & worthy of deeper reflection. I enjoy most of Alain de Botton's books. His writing style has a literary quality, but is never clever for clever's sake. His meditations are interesting, just deep enough, but not so much so that reading his books becomes "work". This volume in particular is interesting because it's all about the "why" and "how" of travel, not the where. The device of juxtaposing h...more

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Jan 23, 2011 Bo rated it 4 of 5 stars

True possession of a scene is a matter of making a conscious effort to notice elements and understand their construction. We can see beauty well enough just by opening our eyes, but how long this beauty will survive in memory depends on how internationally we have apprehended it. The camera blurs the distinction between looking and noticing, between seeing and possessing; it may give us the the option of true knowledge, but it may also unwitting make the effort of acquiring that knowledge seem s...more

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Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com

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