"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
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"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now."
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"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."
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"When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest."
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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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"The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."
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"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
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"One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself."
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"If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two."
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"Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think."
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"When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one"
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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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"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
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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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"There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again."
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"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
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"And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture because it is always preceded by a zone of evaporation."
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy."
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