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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
- Long
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
- Love
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Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a reciprocal torture.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- Nov 07, 2020
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
We become moral when we are unhappy.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
- Nov 07, 2020
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
- Doctor Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
- Passing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020