Alain de Botton Quote

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.


How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (ed. Pantheon, 1997)


The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our...

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our...

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our...

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our...