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

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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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 are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.