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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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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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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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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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in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

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Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ...more

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His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment,...more

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I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio...more

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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

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I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

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The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite...more