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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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