Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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

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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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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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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.

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