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smellincoffee t1_jdttv4c wrote

This quote sums up my love of literature (and de Botton):

“I explained — with the excessive exposition of a man spending a
lonely week at the airport — that I was looking for the sort of books in
which a genial voice expresses emotions that the reader has long felt
but never before really understood; those that convey the secret,
everyday things that society at large prefers to leave unsaid; those
that make one feel somehow less alone and strange.” - Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport

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