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

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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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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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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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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

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

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