This is my favourite de Botton book, probably because I am the most familiar with the subject haha.
My favourite quotation is below:
Some others:
He will continue to trust in the possibility of rapid, wholehearted understanding and empathy between two human beings and in the chance of a definitive end of loneliness.
That it is ‘unnecessary’ in the practical sense to marry only serves to render the ideal more compelling emotionally
But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhibit one reality with destroying the other.
Melancholy [...] is a species of intellectual grief which arises when we come face to face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.
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