If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
MARCEL PROUSTWe do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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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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A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
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The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.
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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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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.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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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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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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Desire makes everything blossom.
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