Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
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- Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
- We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.