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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians
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
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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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