It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.


The Art of Travel (ed. Penguin UK, 2003) - ISBN: 9780141930268

Alain de Botton Quotes

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic...

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic...

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic...

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic...