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Wenn mich etwas neckt und mich verdrießlich machen will, spring ich auf, und sing ein paar Contretänze den Garten auf und ab, gleich ist’s weg. – Das war’s, was ich sagen wollte, versetzte ich: es ist mit der üblen Laune völlig wie mit der
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“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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