Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.

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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

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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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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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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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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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

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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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

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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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