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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
“Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.”
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
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