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- There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
- If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of…
- There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
- For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times…
- Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless.…
- The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as…
- We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot…
- Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a…
- There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person…
- Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary…
- Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
- After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words…
- There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving…
- When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
- Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make…
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
- We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
- It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a…
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
- In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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