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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
Any mental activity is easy if it does not need to take reality into account
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it
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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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