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The true paradises are the lost paradises
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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