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The Art of Travel

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the

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“The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Unhappiness, Solitude

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Journey, travel, destination, Mindset, The Journey Is The Destination

“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Cages, Metaphor