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“Fără dragoste, ne pierdem capacitatea de a avea o identitate reală; în dragoste există o constantă confirmare a sinelui”

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Alain de Botton

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

“Reacția celorlalți la purtarea noastră este comparabilă cu o oglindă pentru că ne întoarce o imagine a noastră pe care singuri nu suntem în stare să o vedem. De asta ceilalți sunt indispensabili, ca să ne dea ceva ce nu putem înțelege singuri, imaginea propriului caracter. Cine sunt eu fără ca ceilalți să îmi dea un indiciu?”

Alain De Botton Eseuri De Indragostit

Author:Alain de Botton

“Am putea eventual defini maturitatea - țelul nostru perpetuu evaziv - ca abilitatea de a da fiecăruia ceea ce merită atunci când o merită, de a separa emoțiile care trebuie imediat exprimate față de cei care le inițiază, în loc de a fi îndreptate mai târziu către nevinovați.”

Alain De Botton Eseuri De Indragostit

Author:Alain de Botton

“The news has the ability to define the agenda by leading the attention of an audience to what it believes to be the issues of importance.”

Attention Media News Alain De Botton

Book:The News: A User's Manual

Source: The News: A User's Manual

“In reading, friendship is brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.”

Alain De Botton

Author:Marcel Proust

“He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the same man who invented both an early kind of computer and the cow catcher, a device attached to the front of locomotives to clear debris from train tracks. He learns that Babbage once wrote to Alfred Tennyson to correct two lines from one of Tennyson's poems, which Babbage felt lacked scientific accuracy. This, thinks Jonas, tells you everything you need to know about both the man and the invention of forms.”

Alfred Tennyson Charles Babbage

Book:The Book of Jonas

Source: The Book of Jonas

“Había estado afiliado siete años al Partido Comunista, del que me fui asqueado en 1938, pero aún mantenía ciertas ilusiones sobre la Rusia soviética y «la solidaridad internacional de las clases obreras como mejor garantía para la paz», que se reflejan a lo largo del libro.”

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Book:Escoria de la Tierra

Source: Escoria de la Tierra

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