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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Le bonheur est dans l'amour un e tat anormal. In love, happiness is abnormal.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.
...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.