We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
From Maurice Maeterlinck
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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