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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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Existence Mindset Money Relationship
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
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
Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Emotion Honesty Life People Thinking
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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 is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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Inspirational Ourselves Tears
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
When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
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Listen Music Sad
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
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Life Sky Yourself
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Body Different Ourselves
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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Freedom Lost Men Science Thinking
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Decision Entrepreneur Ourselves
You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him.
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Himself Learning Men Truth
Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.
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Death Friendship Hard Time Morning
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.
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Existence Give Up Reality Sacrifice

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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