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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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Dream Inspirational Love Time
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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Hypocrite Leadership People Sports Time
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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Deep Sound Time
We love only what we do not wholly possess.
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Human Love Nature
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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Literature Love Reality
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Body Depression Grief Happiness Mindset Power Sympathy
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
When you work to please others you can’t succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone’s interest.
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Chance Satisfaction Success
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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Feeling Habit Inspirational Passion
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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Discover Eyes Inspirational Life Philosophy
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Discover Ourselves Wisdom
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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Habit Mad Proportion
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Doctor Health Ideas Oneself People Powerful
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

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