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Alain de Botton
Goodreads Author
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in Zurich, Switzerland
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Influences
Seneca, Marcel Proust, Montaigne, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert
Member Since
June 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alaindebotton
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The Art of Travel
— published 2002 — 30 editions |
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The Consolations of Philosophy
— published 2000 — 79 editions |
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The Course of Love
— published 2016 — 46 editions |
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On Love
— published 1993 — 82 editions |
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
— published 1997 — 73 editions |
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Status Anxiety
— published 2004 — 55 editions |
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The Architecture of Happiness
— published 2006 — 47 editions |
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Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
— published 2011 — 53 editions |
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
— published 2008 — 42 editions |
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A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
— published 2009 — 29 editions |
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February 2010,
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"Adolescents who can't get a date are in a uniquely privileged position: They will have the perfect chance to get grounding in world literature. There is perhaps an important connection between love and reading, there is perhaps a comparable pleasure offered by both." ...More
"Adolescents who can't get a date are in a uniquely privileged position: They will have the perfect chance to get grounding in world literature. There is perhaps an important connection between love and reading, there is perhaps a comparable pleasure offered by both." ...More
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“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
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“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
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Alain de Botton is writing A Week At The Airport A Heathrow Diary live at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport the week of August 17, 2009. What do you think?
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Alain de Botton
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Laura
Nov 03, 2011 06:47AM
Thank you for accepting my friendship. That you have written so many insightful books and you are my age is a constant source depresses me to no end.
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Félicitations - what a tantalizing review of your new book in the Economist. Subtil plaisir que celui de l'attente de cette lectrice américaine pour la sortie du livre ici aux Etats-Unis.
