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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
There are few things human beings seem more dedicated to than unhappiness. Had we been placed on earth by a malign creator for the exclusive purpose of suffering.. the fraility of our bodies, the fickleness of love, the insincerities of social life, the compromises of friendship, the deadening work.... in the face of such persistent ills it's a wonder we don't look forward to death.
French newspaper posed question: you have 1 day to live, what will you do?
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One philosopher said you wd head for either the nearest church or the nearest bedroom. Proust answered suggesting Louvre, Love and India, though he conspicuously eschewed all three, having spent the last 14 years in bed (having long since concluded that a glass of well-chilled beer offered a more reliable source of pleasure than love-making.
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Power of a book is to help you look at aspects of your own life from another point of view.
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When 2 people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
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