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- The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
- 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…
- Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their…
- Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
- We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
- Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader…
- The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is…
- It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that…
- 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…
- Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
- We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually…
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- 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…
- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
- Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
- We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording…
- The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
- Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
- 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…
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
- Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
- We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
- The only paradise is paradise lost.
- The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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