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

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

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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

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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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

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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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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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