There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
Truth is a point of view about things.
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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.
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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