Alain de Botton Quotes About Proust

Quotes about: Proust

• It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

  Alain de Botton

  Eye, Our World, Would Be

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.214, Pan Macmillan

• When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

  Alain de Botton

  World, Proust, Scene

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

• The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

  Alain de Botton

  Looks, May, Proust

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.153, Pan Macmillan

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