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

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

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

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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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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