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Quote by Alain de Botton

“Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.”

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Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer and philosopher known for his books on philosophy, art, and culture. His work is characterized by its accessible exploration of profound themes, which has won him a wide audience. more

“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.”

Ifs Knows Years Doe Stills Left Saws Ordinary Deserve Fifty Waking Rest Of Your Life Deathbed Waking Life

Book:The bridge

Source: The bridge

“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”

Littles Trade Contempt Contemptuous

Author:Holly Black

“Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.”

Knows Should Wells Enough Faces Fighting Realizing Dignity Execution Know Me

Author:Elizabeth Wein

“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”

Wells Care Law Asks Wish Results Accepting Permission Obliged

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”

Humans Laughing Jokes So Sad

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

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