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"The only paradise is paradise lost."	Miscellaneous
"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full."	Miscellaneous
"The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind."	Miscellaneous
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."	Miscellaneous
"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused."	Miscellaneous
"The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace."	Miscellaneous
"It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part."	Miscellaneous
"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."	Miscellaneous
"Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen."	Miscellaneous
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."	Morality
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."	Reading, Writing
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."	Risk
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."	Success
"Any mental activity is easy if it need not take reality into account."	Thinking
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."	Time
"The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains."	Time
"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."	Time, Truth & Lies
"The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train."	Time
"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit."	Truth & Lies
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."	Wisdom

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