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.
From Marcel Proust
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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 voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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