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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

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
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Darkness Soul Tree
The courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side.
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Courage Eyes Opinion
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
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Death Recovery Truth
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Desire Difference Fade
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
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Rainy Day Weather World
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
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
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Believe Mindset Philosophy Possible
We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.
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Art Feeling Philosophy Thinking
Desire makes everything blossom.
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Desire One Liner
There comes in all our lives a time, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
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Ears Listening Moon Music Silence Time
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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Deep Literature Lying Time
If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
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Endurance Fantasy Reality
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.
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Art Deep Thankful World
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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Friendship Gratitude Happiness Soul
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
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Greatness Literature Religion World

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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