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Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British internationally bestselling author and philosopher. He is a cofounder of The School of Life, an organization with branches around the world offering educational programs helping individuals with life issues.

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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

In these pages, some of today’s most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.

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Maria Popova, Claudia Bedrick
2018
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On Love: A Novel

Plotting the course of an affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, through a fit of anhedonia--defined in medical texts as a disease resulting from the terror brought on by the threat of utter happiness--and finally through the terrorist tactics employed...

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Alain de Botton
2006
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The Course of Love: A Novel

The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term.

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Alain de Botton
2024
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The Architecture of Happiness

A study of architecture examines how we both shape and are shaped by our private homes and public edifices and explains how our stylistic choices can be used to increase our chances of happiness.

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Alain de Botton
2024
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Essays In Love

Alain De Botton's Essays in Love makes the whole process of falling in love much more logical and hence less mysterious. There is profound insight into the addiction of falling in love and the difference between love and the transitory feeling of being in love.

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Alain de Botton
2024
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The Art of Travel

Aside from love, few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling; taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes.

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Alain de Botton
2024
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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres; literary biography and self-help manual in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.

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Alain de Botton
1998
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