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" A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves. "
Ourselves
Change
Weather
" A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. "
Strength
Challenges
Him
" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "
Grief
Sympathy
Happiness
" Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. "
Kindness
Knowledge
Medical
" In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. "
Things
Love
More
" In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. "
Time
Practice
Earth
" It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. "
Medical
Alone
Knowledge
" Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
Us
Grateful
Happy
" Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. "
Important
Pleasure
Lies
" Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. "
Love
Person
Thought
" Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. "
Simple
Way
Saying
" Love is a reciprocal torture. "
Love Is
Love
Torture
" Love is space and time measured by the heart. "
Love Is
Time
Space
" Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. "
Art
Person
Only
" The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. "
Discovery
Voyage
Only
" The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. "
Discovery
New
Real
" There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. "
Youth
Wise
Said
" The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. "
New
Voyage
Discovery
" Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. "
Intelligence
Doctor
Medical
" Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. "
Everything
True
Time Passes
" Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. "
People
Which
Time
" We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. "
Full
Suffering
Only
" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "
Journey
Wisdom
Us
" We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. "
Truth
Never
Beyond
" Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. "
Words
Year
Two
" Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. "
Forest
Your
Trees
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