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 leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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

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

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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

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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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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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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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