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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." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another
person sees." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say
this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It
never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun
or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so
certain and which has every hour filled in advance." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as
precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to
suffer." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "The true paradises are paradises we have lost." | |
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Found in the topic Loquacity.
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| "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops
the powers of the mind." | |
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Found in the topic Grief.
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| "We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but
gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change
because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to
surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to do, but life has
taken us around it, led us past it, and then if we turn around to gaze at
the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it
become." | |
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Found in the topic Desire.
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| "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes." | |
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Found in the topic Discovery.
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| "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream
less but to dream more, to dream all the time." | |
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Found in the topic Danger.
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| "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." | |
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Found in the topic Gratitude.
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| "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full." | |
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Found in the topic Suffer.
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| "Though time changes people, it does not alter the image we have kept
of them." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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