Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

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

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

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

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

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

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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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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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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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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