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"Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Life is all about discovery."
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"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."
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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."
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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
Grief

"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
Memory

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Wisdom

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

"I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you."
Spiritual

"Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty."
Ethics

"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
Lifestyle

"The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves."
Psychology

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
Chance
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