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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Alain de Botton
Pain, Thinking, Suffering
Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Alain de Botton
Suffering, Behaviour, Malice

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Alain de Botton
Love Is, Suffering, Disease
Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Alain de Botton
Art, Suffering, Important

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