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Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.