The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
The heart does not lie.
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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