There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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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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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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