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

Marcel Proust

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happiness Joy Laughter Purpose
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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Himself Men Mystery
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
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Intellectual Simplicity Stupidity
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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Book Happiness Live Ourselves Reading
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
It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Moments Wait
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
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Experience Grief Healing Suffering
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
Love ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
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Love Moments Satisfaction
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
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Oneself Opportunity Thinking
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
Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.
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Memories Oneself Place
One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Happiness Moral

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

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