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| The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. |
| Discovery |
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| There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. |
| Childhood |
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| There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires |
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| 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. |
| Memory; Men |
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| There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind |
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| There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. |
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| Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. |
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| Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians |
| Love; Suffering |
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| Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. |
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| Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them |
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| We always end up doing the thing we are second best at. |
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| 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. |
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| We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. |
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| We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. |
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| We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. |
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| We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. |
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| We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. |
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| We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. |
| Truth |
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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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