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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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

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

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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

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

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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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