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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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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
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