We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Truth is a point of view about things.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
Desire makes everything blossom
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
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