Quotes from The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert — Joseph Joubert
1754–1824 France
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I stop when I see no more light; it is impossible for me to write by feeling my way.
To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it.
In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy.
I don't like to write anything down on paper that I would not say to myself.
I have not seen you since, but you have often appeared to me in my dreams.
Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.
Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.
For in spite of ourselves we respect those whom we see respected.
Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.
To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.
My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.
When we speak, we write what we are saying in the air.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Divorce. Its existence and use should be determined only by the interests of the children.
Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.
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