Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

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