Alain de Botton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. December 20, 1969
Birthday: December 20
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.
source: "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.
topic: Numbness, Identity, World, Surrounded By Friends, Foibles
