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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."
"That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside."
"Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it."
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
"I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it."
"Some things can't be taught, they can only be discovered."
"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"
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"For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits."
"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."
"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."
"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
"My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play."
"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love."
"Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it."
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