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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton

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louche (en)

disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way

26

listening to a louche character with a thick moustache

—p.26 How to Read for Yourself (11) by Alain de Botton
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listening to a louche character with a thick moustache

—p.26 How to Read for Yourself (11) by Alain de Botton
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etiolated (en)

(of a plant) pale and drawn out due to a lack of light; having lost vigour or substance; feeble

37

a multitude of once profound, now etiolated dramas

—p.37 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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a multitude of once profound, now etiolated dramas

—p.37 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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harelipped (en)

(pejorative, often metaphorical) having a cleft lip

39

his harelipped son

—p.39 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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his harelipped son

—p.39 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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feuilleton (fr)

kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles

39

suitable for feuilleton format

—p.39 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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suitable for feuilleton format

—p.39 How to Take Your Time (31) by Alain de Botton
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confrère (en)

(an English word, derived from Middle French) a fellow member of a profession

70

a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea

—p.70 How to Suffer Successfully (49) by Alain de Botton
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a confrère of the princess whose nights were ruined by a single pea

—p.70 How to Suffer Successfully (49) by Alain de Botton
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baneful (en)

destructive; pernicious

79

pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new

—p.79 How to Suffer Successfully (49) by Alain de Botton
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pushes us into a baneful direction where we learn nothing new

—p.79 How to Suffer Successfully (49) by Alain de Botton
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obsequies (en)

funeral rites

107

conduct the obsequies

—p.107 How to Be a Good Friend (105) by Alain de Botton
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conduct the obsequies

—p.107 How to Be a Good Friend (105) by Alain de Botton
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apotheosis (en)

the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

112

Proust was not implying that painting had reached its apotheosis in Impressionism

—p.112 How to Be a Good Friend (105) by Alain de Botton
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Proust was not implying that painting had reached its apotheosis in Impressionism

—p.112 How to Be a Good Friend (105) by Alain de Botton
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lacuna (en)

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

171

the lacuna in her knowledge of art history

—p.171 How to be Happy in Love (159) by Alain de Botton
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the lacuna in her knowledge of art history

—p.171 How to be Happy in Love (159) by Alain de Botton
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volubility (en)

the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness

204

I detest my own volubility

—p.204 How to Put Books Down (173) by Virginia Woolf
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I detest my own volubility

—p.204 How to Put Books Down (173) by Virginia Woolf
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