Joseph Roux

Joseph Roux

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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Joseph Roux

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.

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Joseph Roux

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Tags: Great, Little, Ruined

Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

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Joseph Roux

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

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Joseph Roux

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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Joseph Roux

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

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Joseph Roux