George Jensen

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
― Alain de Botton

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
― Alain de Botton