What did Alain de Botton mean by: Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Enough, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Acceptance, Wisdom, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Accepting, Offers, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Action, Cures, Tendencies, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Achieve, Enough, Ordinary, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Behavior, Malice, Suffering, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Events, Existence, Spring, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Asking, Book, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories. - Jean-Dominique Bauby Journalist · France
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it’s over. It’s over. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter
If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar. - Jeff VanderMeer Author · USA
