Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.Marcel Proust
Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus. The true paradises are the lost paradises.
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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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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
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The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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