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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in whic...more

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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 el...more

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The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four ...more

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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs,...more

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycon...more

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Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

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Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

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There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.

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For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He ...more

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The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is ...more

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It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

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... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.