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

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

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

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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

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

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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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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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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