"The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."

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Alain de Botton

#Views Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings”
“I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.”

Source : "Kristin Kreuk, Video-Game Vixen". Parade Interview, parade.com. February 26, 2009.
“In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.”
“There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.”
“I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.”
“Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.”
“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”
“That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.”

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