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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.