Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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.
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
Desire makes everything blossom
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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.
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