“Voluntary memory, the memory of the intellect and the eyes, [gives] us only imprecise facsimiles of the past which no more resemble it than pictures by bad painters resemble the spring … So we don’t believe that life is beautiful because we don’t recall it, but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell… [Read more…]
June 15, 2010
If you suffer, and you will (because who doesn’t?), then do it successfully, according to both Marcel Proust and Alain de Botton. It’s not the easiest thing in the world. Drenched in sorrows, it’s easier of course to stay in bed, jump off a bridge than write a philosophy book. If you plan on ending… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
“I never expressed a desire to break up with her except when I was unable to do without her,” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. I came across this quote in Alain de Botton‘s book How Proust Can Change You Life which I’d just begun reading. In the second chapter, titled How to Read… [Read more…]
June 11, 2010
De Botton, Alain – On Love (The book in pdf format) Where do I begin? I don’t know. So I won’t. I’ll just leave you with the book, and let you formulate your own impressions and reach your own conclusions. I’ve been flooding my time-line on Twitter with quotes from this book, and I’m not… [Read more…]
May 22, 2010
"The desert was about the void, the zero point, shrinking yourself and your concerns in the immensity and emptiness of it all. The desert was about a definite psychological need for vastness in the face of human confusion, brain fatigue."
June 20, 2010
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