It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one’s life.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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